Ancestor-worship

Ancestor-worship, with its separate family ceremonials, for which the wife must learn her husband's family ritual, led to child-marriage, and that in turn to the slavery of the wife not only to the husband but to the older women of his family.

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

Buddhism Ancestor-worship, and Confucianism, which, taken together, would indeed possess a larger number of adherents, are not distinct religious bodies, but forms of religion and systems of religious customs all of which, as mentioned above, are at times observed by the same individual.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

(Polydæmonism, Animism, Fetishism, Ancestor-worship) has been proved false, since long before 2000 B.C. a kind of Henotheism, i.e.,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

(M11) Ancestor-worship would be as much out of place in the Old Testament; and yet there are references in the Bible to offerings to the dead which, unless they are held to refer only to importations from outside religions and not to relapses in the Israelites themselves to former superstitions of their own people, imply that the great tribal religion of the

On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay 1906

Ancestor-worship has deprived the Chinese of the capacity to create, it has seriously affected Chesterton's power to criticize.

G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Julius West 1904

Ancestor-worship possibly evolved from totemism, 114 _sq.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Ancestor-worship, also, survives in many other races as one of the main cults, even after other elements of later religion have been superimposed upon it.

God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897

Ancestor-worship, also, survives in many other races as one of the main cults, even after other elements of later religion have been superimposed upon it.

God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897

Ancestor-worship, also, survives in many other races as one of the main cults, even after other elements of later religion have been superimposed upon it.

God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897

Ancestor-worship, and the cult of Confucius, are probably very much what they were many hundreds of years ago; while Taoism, once a pure philosophy, is now a corrupt religion.

Religions of Ancient China Herbert Allen Giles 1890