UPACARA BERSIH DUSUN NGAGRONG ATAS, DESA NGAGRONG, AMPEL, BOYOLALI SEBUAH STUDI DARI SUDUT SOSIOLOGI SENI by Subandi Subandi

“…Here  acculturation takes place because the ancestor worship is mixed with Islamic beliefs. Traditional  Rodhat is presented before the presentation of Lembu Sena dance. …”
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Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination by Purzycki, BG, Ross, CT, Apicella, C, Atkinson, QD, Cohen, E, McNamara, RA, Willard, AK, Xygalatas, D, Norenzayan, A, Henrich, J

“…Our sample includes individuals from a wide range of traditions, including world religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, but also local traditions rooted in beliefs in animism, ancestor worship, and worship of spirits associated with nature. …”

Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies by Lang, M, Purzycki, BG, Apicella, CL, Atkinson, QD, Bolyanatz, A, Cohen, E, Handley, C, Klocová, E, Lesorogol, C, Mathew, S, McNamara, RA, Moya, C, Placek, CD, Soler, M, Vardy, T, Weigel, JL, Willard, AK, Xygalatas, D, Norenzayan, A, Henrich, J

“…These populations included foragers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, and wage labourers, practicing Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism, but also forms of animism and ancestor worship. Using the Random Allocation Game (RAG) and the Dictator Game (DG) in which individuals allocated money between themselves, local and geographically distant co-religionists, and religious outgroups, we found that higher ratings of gods as monitoring and punishing predicted decreased local favouritism (RAGs) and increased resource-sharing with distant co-religionists (DGs). …”

Shamanism: Indications and Use by Older Hmong Americans with Chronic Illness by Linda A. Gerdner

“…The majority of older Hmong Americans (74.29%) and family caregivers (57.58) had retained the spiritual beliefs of animism and ancestor worship. Findings report that 18 (51.43%) older Hmong Americans compared to 21 (63.3%) family caregivers sought the services of both a physician and a shaman for treatment of the older person’s chronic illness. …”
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Connaissance et métamorphoses de l’Iliade en Étrurie by Françoise-Hélène Massa-Pairault

“…The author offers an itinerary through the images of the Trojan Cycle and the Iliad that arrived or were reinterpreted in Etruria between the ancient orientalizing period and the 4th century B.C.From the 7th century on, knowledge of the Greek epic (which was not limited to the reception of the Trojan cycle, but also included the Theban one or that of the Argonauts) resulted in a reappropriation and acculturation in the figurative language of iconographies, schemes and scenes applicable and transposable to local social and political realities, such as ancestor worship and the rules of devolution of royal power.The “demaratean” moment of Etruria involves a deepening of this knowledge because the litterae then introduced suggest an effective recitation of certain epic passages in princely residences. …”
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JAVANESE ISLAM AND GLOBALIZATION: A STUDY ON THE SUSTAINABILITY THE ABOGE ISLAM COMMUNITY IN INDONESIA by M Ali Sofyan, Tri Wahyuni, Win Listyaningrum Arifin

“…This form of adaptation is the inheritance of community values by passing down their traditional values to the younger generation, which includes 'ngormati leluhur' (the practices of ancestor worship), "melu gawe" (a Javanese term for working together), and "Turki" (Tuturan Kaki, oral transmission of knowledge and advice from parents or elders). …”
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Reinforcement and Deacidification for a Textile Scroll Painting (AD 1881) Using the CNF and MgO Suspensions by Hanyu Wei, Fangnan Zhao, Yunpeng Qi, Zhihui Jia, Yajun Zhou, Xiaolian Chao, Meirong Shi, Yujia Luo, Huiping Xing

“…The scroll paintings for ancestor trees have been used to inherit the spirit of ancestor worship as a historical record of family development since the late Ming Dynasty in China. …”
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Young People's Housing Opportunity in Post-reform China by Weijing Deng

“…Before the socialist system of welfare and housing was developed, the provision and inheritance of residential property was linked to customs regarding elderly care and ancestor worship, so property transfers were likewise carried out patrilineally. …”
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El calendario adivinatorio de 260 días en la sociedad maya contemporánea: usos, funciones y estructura by Michela Craveri

“…It is also a day dedicated to the ancestors’ worship, a ritual always connected to the renovation and to the request of life protection, but never to the destruction and to the death.…”
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A.B. Anokhin's letter “On shamanism among the Altai tribes” by Malinov A.V.

“…In particular, information is given about female deities residing in the fourth celestial sphere (kat); Enem-Jajuchy — the Mother of the Creator; daughters of Eligeni, dwelling on the fourteenth celestial sphere (kat); and about female ancestors worshipped by the Teleuts. The letter of Anokhin was written during a school expedition led by him in the Teleut village of Cherga in the Altai Mountains. …”
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Questions to heaven = 天问. by Leow, Hou Teng.

“…These were carved on ancestor tablets by the artist’s father, the artist himself, and a machine, to mediate a conversation between the three generations and to highlight the lost of a traditional skill and the wisdom attached to it through the generations. Ancestor worshiping is a common religious Daoism practice that is based on the belief that deceased family members have a continued existence in an afterlife and watches over the affairs of the family. …”
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