Cult of Ancestors as Epicenter of Collision Between Protestantism and Vietnamese Traditional Beliefs
From the beginning period in Vietnam, the appearance of Protestantism is thought to be a confession of the Western monotheistic religion to enter into a fierce competition with system of diverse national beliefs and religions which deeply rooted in the spiritual life of the local native. Especially, it was a true fierce competition when the cult of ancestors, which was organically inherent in Vietnamese traditional religious culture, was denied by Protestantism. The purpose of this article is to analyze the collision process between Protestantism and Vietnamese belief in ancestor worship, its consequences in the process of evangelism both in the past and nowadays.