ancestor-worship

The three are in many ways indistinguishable, the product of a unique form of Hinduism that incorporates older animistic and ancestor-worship practices, as well as borrowings from places like Java and China.

Island Art, and All That Comes With It David Littlejohn 2011

The three are in many ways indistinguishable, the product of a unique form of Hinduism that incorporates older animistic and ancestor-worship practices, as well as borrowings from places like Java and China.

Island Art, and All That Comes With It David Littlejohn 2011

There is a lot of ancestor-worship behind a lot of Catholic traditions.

Transcript: Ghosts! « Coyote Con 2010

And Shintoism combines both aspects of ancestor-worship religion into one diverse creed: Ancestors are kami the same as the small nature gods are.

Visiting the sins of the father on the children: inherited debt Michael Turton 2009

Without ancestor-worship, meaning is in short supply -- "meaning" here meaning agreed-on and instituted forms of value and understanding, implicit orders, stories and images in which a culture crystallizes its sense of the struggle with the realm of necessity and the reality of pain and death.

Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009

Without ancestor-worship, meaning is in short supply -- "meaning" here meaning agreed-on and instituted forms of value and understanding, implicit orders, stories and images in which a culture crystallizes its sense of the struggle with the realm of necessity and the reality of pain and death.

Modernism and social life Daniel Little 2009

In England, Jeremy Bentham, who died in 1832, had savagely attacked the “ancestor-worship” of the common law.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

In England, Jeremy Bentham, who died in 1832, had savagely attacked the “ancestor-worship” of the common law.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

In England, Jeremy Bentham, who died in 1832, had savagely attacked the “ancestor-worship” of the common law.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

"Bisj-poles — Sculptures from the rainforest" exhibits the meters-high, carved wooden poles used by the Asman culture in New Guinea during ancestor-worship rituals.

Time Off Europe Calendar 2007