necrolatry

[Gr. hoi nekroi -the dead, and latreia =worship.] The worship of the dead; manes-worship (q. v.). "Were it true that necrolatry was not rooted in the primitive Aryan mind....it would be strange that, though superficial, it was so difficult to extirpate." Herbert Spencer: Prin. of Sociol ., i. (App. l .) (q.v.)] (q. v.)]