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== Religion ==
{{main|Serer religion|Ndut initiation rite}}
Serer-Ndut people traditionally and still practice the [[Serer religion]] which involves [[Veneration of the dead|honouring the ancestors]] covering all dimensions of life, death, [[Religious cosmology#Serer religion|cosmology]] etc.<ref>[[Issa Laye Thiaw]]. "La Religiosite de Seereer, Avant et pendant leur Islamisation". Ethiopiques no: 54, Revue semestrielle de Culture Négro-Africaine. Nouvelle série, volume 7, 2e Semestre 1991</ref><ref>[[Henry Gravrand|Gravramd, Henry]], "La Civilisation Sereer - ''Pangool'', Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du [[Senegal]], (1990), p. 9. {{ISBN|2-7236-1055-1}}</ref>  Their name for the Supreme Deity ([[Roog (Serer deity)|Roog]] - in Serer religion) is [[Kopé Tiatie Cac]] - (''God the grandfather'' in the [[Ndut language]]).<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Ndiaye, Ousmane Sémou, "Diversité et unicité sérères : l’exemple de la région de Thiès", Éthiopiques, no 54, vol. 7, 2e semestre 1991 [http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?page=imprimer-article&id_article=1253]</ref> The [[Ndut initiation rite]], a [[rite of passage]] in Serer religion takes its name from the Ndut language. Some Serer-Ndut are Catholic.  The main [[Catholic mission]] is at the town of Tiin.