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 ...

PANO - The ancestor worship ceremony of the Lo Lo Den community in Lung Cu commune, Tuyen Quang province, is an age-old ...

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 ...

Separating fossil ancestors from collateral relatives is no simple task. In his 1870 address as the president of London’s Geological Society, the naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley reminded his colleagues ...

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, ...