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When children reject ancestral traditions

My teenage son is embarrassed by our family's traditional practices and wants nothing to do with ancestor veneration but I'm terrified the lineage will die with his generation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Generational cultural loss creates deep anxiety about the survival of spiritual lineages.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — Africa?”

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