Add to ORKGThis article investigates the social status attributed to African Traditional Religion (ATR) in determining culture and identity. Since ATR is seen to be the sum total of the peculiarities shared by African people, African people’s values can also be seen as part of their identity. However, this article shows that the loss of African identity has raised numerous problems on the continent because of the marginalisation of ATR. According to Mbiti (1995:5), ATR plays a holistic role in an African’s understanding of his/her origin and purpose. A theoretical approach as to how ATR is the source of African identity is provided here. The study will argue that there is a need to rethink on the significance of ATR and the ontology that reco...
Western thought has influenced the way that religion is understood. Western philosophy supported the...
The church in Africa experienced a tremendous growth during the twentieth century but is still in se...
As religious systems are intertwined with social systems, change and continuity in thought and pract...
Looking at most African countries, one realises that the social imaginaries which make us who we are...
Looking at most African countries, one realises that the social imaginaries which make us who we are...
It is a fact, that African Traditional Religions are embedded in the Traditional life of Africans; t...
Reality is a universal philosophical problem that people try to explain its underlying principle fro...
CITATION: Sanni, J. S. 2016. Religion : a new Struggle for African Identity. Phronimon, 7(1):71–83, ...
To what extent do the resources of African Traditional Religion (ATR) contribute towards Christian t...
The paper examines the loss of African identity within the modern/ contemporary era. African identit...
African Traditional Religion is the indigenous religion of the Africans. The religion that has exist...
Reality is a universal philosophical problem that people try to explain its underlying principle fro...
Even though African Traditional Religion and Cultural family life seem to have been detached from th...
This paper argues that the juxtaposition of the African Traditional Religion (ATR) with Ibramic f...
Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 1991.The primary reason for writing a thesis on this p...
Western thought has influenced the way that religion is understood. Western philosophy supported the...
The church in Africa experienced a tremendous growth during the twentieth century but is still in se...
As religious systems are intertwined with social systems, change and continuity in thought and pract...
Looking at most African countries, one realises that the social imaginaries which make us who we are...
Looking at most African countries, one realises that the social imaginaries which make us who we are...
It is a fact, that African Traditional Religions are embedded in the Traditional life of Africans; t...
Reality is a universal philosophical problem that people try to explain its underlying principle fro...
CITATION: Sanni, J. S. 2016. Religion : a new Struggle for African Identity. Phronimon, 7(1):71–83, ...
To what extent do the resources of African Traditional Religion (ATR) contribute towards Christian t...
The paper examines the loss of African identity within the modern/ contemporary era. African identit...
African Traditional Religion is the indigenous religion of the Africans. The religion that has exist...
Reality is a universal philosophical problem that people try to explain its underlying principle fro...
Even though African Traditional Religion and Cultural family life seem to have been detached from th...
This paper argues that the juxtaposition of the African Traditional Religion (ATR) with Ibramic f...
Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 1991.The primary reason for writing a thesis on this p...
Western thought has influenced the way that religion is understood. Western philosophy supported the...
The church in Africa experienced a tremendous growth during the twentieth century but is still in se...
As religious systems are intertwined with social systems, change and continuity in thought and pract...