This research paper will suggest that despite attempts to silence the ancestral altars of departe... more This research paper will suggest that despite attempts to silence the ancestral altars of departed ancestors, their voices cannot completely be quelled. There has been and always will be a devotion to remembering the dead, as there should be. Vietnamese ancestral altars of the dead have been silenced by branches of Christian tradition for long enough; it is past time for those passed to reclaim their filial place in the lives of Vietnamese Protestant families today. And it would be my contention that by exploring the Hebrew response to the dead and the inherent rationale underpinning it that much can be learned when it comes to interpreting an appropriate response towards the veneration of the ancestral dead in the twenty-first century.
This research paper will suggest that despite attempts to silence the ancestral altars of departe... more This research paper will suggest that despite attempts to silence the ancestral altars of departed ancestors, their voices cannot completely be quelled. There has been and always will be a devotion to remembering the dead, as there should be. Vietnamese ancestral altars of the dead have been silenced by branches of Christian tradition for long enough; it is past time for those passed to reclaim their filial place in the lives of Vietnamese Protestant families today. And it would be my contention that by exploring the Hebrew response to the dead and the inherent rationale underpinning it that much can be learned when it comes to interpreting an appropriate response towards the veneration of the ancestral dead in the twenty-first century.
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