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Beyond the popular maxim, that ancestor worship or veneration is essentially about the people who had lived upright lives here on earth, died good and natural death and at ripe old age, and received the acknowledged funeral rites, this study posits, that there is an aspect of this concept, which for long, has escaped the attention of scholars of Religious studies. This is nothing less than modern day ancestor worship. Men in Vietnam -- where abortion is widespread -- have traditionally carried on the family lineage, inherited homes and land, and cared for elderly parents as well as overseeing funerals and ancestor worship rituals. |
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