Ancestors and Posterity. The Religion of the Domus and its Message












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            * Jan Sokol
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            Abstrakt

            Ancestor worship has attracted the attention of many scholars, of ethnologists and anthrop
            than of scholars studying western religions or theologians. Its sometimes odd expressions 
            treated in the West – with some exceptions – rather as curiosities without asking about th

            meaning. In the following article, I do not pretend to make a comparison between various h
            religions, which is clearly beyond my competence. I shall merely try to bring together som
            by the religion of the domus or home religion, whose various forms ethnologists have descr

            cultures all around the world, and to show ancestor worship as a part of this larger syste
            and convictions. This simple yet ingenious system of mutual obligations between generation

            formed human behavior for millennia and probably shaped many of our present-day views and 
            too. However evidently obsolete in some of its expressions, it perhaps contains some very 
            about humans and their relations to the past and to the future that went into oblivion in 

            societies. However modern societies cannot be organized in separate lineages; a deeper loo
            framework of human lives might remind us about things lacking and perhaps urgently needed 
            and future societies.


            Klíčová slova
            ancestor worship; home religion; procreation; heritage; patrilinearity


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