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Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy. [PDF]

Religion Brain Behav
Stucky K, Gardner A.
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Confucian Identification, Ancestral Beliefs, and Ancestral Rituals in Korea

Religions, 2022
Since Koreans do not consider Confucianism to be part of religion, conventional religious identification questions cannot accurately capture the number of Confucians in Korea.
Jibum Kim, Jae-Mahn Shim, Sori Kim
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Remembering Teesta and the Water Dragon

HIMALAYA, 2022
In this illustrated folk narrative, a muun, a traditional female shaman of the Lepcha tribe, takes us on a journey of the tribe’s origins, it’s connection to the ancestors, mother earth, and the sacred waters through the muun’s vision of the water dragon.
Alyen Leeachum Foning
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Ancestors Are Watching: Ritual and Governance at Peck San Theng, a Chinese Afterlife Care Organization in Singapore

Religions, 2020
Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng 新加坡廣惠肇碧山亭 (hereafter PST) is a non-profit organization registered under Singapore’s Societies Ordinance, founded in 1870 by Chinese immigrants from three prefectures of Guangdong province: Guangzhou 廣州, Zhaoqing 肇慶 and ...
Chi-cheung Choi
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Withered Wood and Dead Ashes—Making Sense of the Sacred Bodies of Kamatari at Tōnomine

Religions, 2022
The portrait statue of Fujiwara Kamatari (614–669) enshrined at Tōnomine is well known for its agency and mantic powers. Known to crack whenever the stability of the clan was under threat, the icon was carefully observed and cared for.
Benedetta Lomi
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Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China

Demographic Research, 2018
Background: Ancestor worship in China used to be an indispensable component of marriage and family life because it fostered an orientation toward perpetuating the family line.
Anning Hu, Felicia Tian
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Quand les morts reviennent… Réflexion sur l’ancestralité chez les Mayas des Basses Terres

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2003
When the dead come home… Remarks on ancestor worship among the Lowland Mayas. In Amerindian ethnographical literature, ancestor worship is often mentioned but evidence of its existence is lacking.
Olivier Le Guen
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Héros nationaux, Bouddha des Neuf Cieux et déesses-mères : politique et religion dans le Viêt Nam rural contemporain

Moussons, 2020
Politics and religion have long been seen as conflicting domains in the Socialist Republic of Viêt Nam in official discourse. Yet, attention to local religious practice reveals long historical traditions of negotiation between local religious ...
Phương Anh Phan, Lauren Meeker
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Religion, Nonreligion and the Sacred: Art and the Contemporary Rituals of Birth

Religions, 2021
This paper looks at the role of art and material culture in the rituals of birth, first taking into consideration research on material culture in traditional rituals of birth and then turning to the primary topic, which is how art in the contemporary ...
Anna M. Hennessey
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Filial Duties in the Ugaritic Epic of Danilu and Aqhatu

Collectanea Theologica, 2023
The list of filial duties from the Aqhatu story constitutes a passage unique to the literature of the ancient Near East, emphasized in the epic by its fourfold repetition in close proximity. This is why the list has attracted much attention of scholars,
Marcin Majewski
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