In Korea, ancestor worship is referred to by the generic term jerye. Notable examples of jerye include Munmyo jerye and Jongmyo jerye, which are performed periodically each year for venerated ...

A line from my NRO essay on Dante and Holy Week has caught the eye of some readers. In it, I make a wisecrack that ancestor worship is the true religion of the American South. Here, from my book How ...

A ceremony to worship Huangdi, a legendary common ancestor of the Chinese people, is held in Xinzheng City, central China's Henan Province, March 31, 2025. People attended a grand ceremony on Monday ...

Over 500 people attended a ceremony Monday in Jinyun County, east China's Zhejiang Province, to worship the country's legendary ancestor Huangdi, or the Yellow Emperor. The ceremonial rituals in ...

In addition to the classic beliefs known to all, such as Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, there are other beliefs, notably those held by certain African peoples. These beliefs were described by early ...

Excavation work led by the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute team has unearthed a large urban villa dating back to the early New Kingdom, about 1500-1450 B.C.E. The findings at the site of ...

A distant relative recently contacted me about our family history. This is always disturbing, of course, because you never know what he might discover. What you already know may be bad enough. But the ...

Formerly the editor of the Galway literary magazine The Burning Bush, Michael S. Begnal is an accomplished poet, whose collection "Ancestor Worship" was recently published. Though American-born, ...