OUTLINE Introduction Concept of rural traditional religion Theoretical Framework The relevance of rural traditional religion contemporary Nigeria development Conclusion References ABSTRACT Contemporary global trends and the influence of western civilization have undermined the role which indigenous traditional religion plays towards national development. Overtime, people have had a preconceived or negative notion of what traditional religion is all about. This may be attributed to our socialization process and fake historical records of earlier missionary who view Africa as a land of no history, the generation of Essau who has been cursed. In order to dispute this assertion, this article examines the role of traditional religion toward national development. It argues that, the fact that some people use image as a means of communication to God does not mean they have nothing to contribute to the knowledge of God. Therefore, every religion must be appreciated in its own sense. In esse...
“The consciousness of men can neither be independently understood nor entirely abstracted from the specific social contexts and experiences within which they were developed. Consciousness therefore includes fundamental elements of criticality, which are indomitable and are also not mechanically determinable"(Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe, 2008). ABSTRACT No one puts a new wine into old bottles; else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish neither can two sailor sail a ship to the right destination, one has to be a captain while the other has to be the subordinate. Our culture is eroding away gradually and if nothing is done to rescue the “sinking culture on the sea”, the havoc will be more devastating. Our grandfather and great grandfather have been enslaved, lose our heritage on the hand of the white. They have been Americanized, exploited and brainwashed making them to forgot their heritage and homeland (Africa). It is no...