EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONALITY: ANCESTOR VENERATION IN LATE EURO-AMERICAN SOCIETY

Following a ten-year intergenerational study, my research is currently focused on one cohort I have termed 'Generation A': female, Christian and born in the 1920s and 30s, everywhere regarded as the back-bone of mainstream Christianity and everywhere dying and not being replaced in the church. I identify here a belief in ancestor veneration, similar to ancestor worship, that functions to preserve social norms and is particular experienced and transmitted by Generation A through mainstream and ethnic, natal and aspirational Christian nominalism.