Ancestor Worship in Japan: Dependence and the Resolution of Grief

1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Klass
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
The Dead

Ancestor worship in Japan is ritual, supported by a sophisticated theory, by which the living manage their bonds with the dead. Differing cultural values on autonomy/dependence create differences in interpersonal bonds, thus different dynamics in breaking and continuing bonds after death. This article defines ancestor worship and places in its historical/political context, discusses autonomy and dependence as cultural values in terms of expressions and resolutions of grief, and describes ancestor worship as processes similar to the resolution of grief in the modern West.

Tamil Theology and Ancestor Worship

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (S-2) ◽  
pp. 126-129
Author(s):  
Ramarajapandian V
Keyword(s):  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
The People ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

In ancient times, the loved ones had the tradition of worshipping their virtues after their demise. The practice of growing more and more family was practiced when those who worked for their family to progress were worshipped after their deaths. One of the rituals is to make the dead sieve. The ancestral worship is to pay tribute to the experiences of the ancestors who have been with us in the relationship and blood of the tribes. This cult was associated with the middle stone worship of the people of this group over time. These are the foundations of the study of the ancient cult sculptors and theories of the present day.

scholarly journals SITUS TRADISI BERLANJUT DI BUAHDUA SUMEDANG

PANALUNGTIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Effie Latifundia ◽  
Sudarti Prijono
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
The People ◽  
Ancestral Spirit ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The prehistoric tradition that still continues today is the megalithic tradition. Therefore the megalithic tradition is a system of sustainable cultural values or so-called traditions continue. Characteristic of megalithic tradition is ancestor worship or ancestral spirit. Until now, some villages in the area of Buahdua-Sumedang megalithic tradition still continues and can not even be separated from the life of the community supporters. The purpose of this study to explore the sites of tradition continues in the life of the people of Buahdua and surrounding areas even though Islam has grown and embraced. This research is conducted by survey method to collect information and describe the forms of cultural relation with megalithic tradition. The results show that although Islam has grown and adhered to, but the worship of ancestors as local religious understandings before Islam developed still continues. The form of simple ancient tombs with erect stone tombstone, petilasan / tread and even a collection of large stones irregular stone until now still visited for the worshiped or pilgrimage.Keywords: megalithic tradition, tomb, pilgrimage.

scholarly journals Puhetta kuolleelle

2017 ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Anna Hollsten
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Dead Person ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
The Dead ◽  
To Come ◽  
Present Life ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Speaking to the Dead: Poetic Address and Continuing Attachment in Elegies by Paavo Haavikko, Aale Tynni, and Anja Vammelvuo This article focuses on the addressment of the deceased in Finnish elegies from the late 1960s and the early 70s written by Paavo Haavikko, Aale Tynni and Anja Vammelvuo to commemorate their spouses. Until recently, the psychoanalytical theory of grief has been in uential among scholars of elegy. This article, however, aims to revise this dominant paradigm by applying a more up-to-date understanding of grief – the continuing bonds model – to the study of elegiac poetry. In contrast to the psychoanalytical theory of grief, the continuing bonds model emphasizes that relationships with the deceased are continued rather than abandoned; people do not recover from experience of loss, rather, the mourner renegotiates his or her relationship to the deceased. In the elegies analysed in this article, addressing the deceased is used to express the mourning speaker’s experiences of presence as well as the absence of the person passed. The differences in coping with and expressing grief are partly connected to gender in the analysed poems; Haavikko’s male speaker is more reluctant to openly grieve than Tynni’s and Vammelvuo’s female speakers, who beg their spouses to come back and who can feel the presence – and in Vammelvuo’s case, even the touch of the deceased. However, in all these cases the speakers try to make sense of their continuing relationship to the dead person in their present life.

In the Realm of the Dead

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh Q. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
The Dead

Chapter 4 deals with the afterlife and the cult of the dead, according to both Confucian and Vietnamese folk Buddhist practices. It begins with an overview of traditional Vietnamese anthropology and its influence on ancestral worship: outlining several characteristics that are the basis of ancestor worship, the discussion then turns to how the Confucian tradition linked rituals honoring the dead with filial piety, and to traditional conceptions of the soul and the afterlife in Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. Then the chapter proceeds to a detailed description of the traditional funeral rites and ancestral veneration, including an account of practices surrounding the burial, as well as folk Buddhism and the afterlife. The chapter ends with a Christian evaluation of these practices.

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