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Title:
THE RESISTANCE OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION (ATR) TO CHRISTIANITY: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Authors:
Francis Ohiemi Edimeh

Volume:4 Issue: 2

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Francis Ohiemi Edimeh
Department of History, Kogi State College of Education, Ankpa, Kogi State, Nigeria

MLA 8
Edimeh, Francis Ohiemi. "THE RESISTANCE OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION (ATR) TO CHRISTIANITY: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 4, no. 2, Feb. 2020, pp. 49-60, journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=4. Accessed Feb. 2020.
APA
Edimeh, F. (2020, February). THE RESISTANCE OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION (ATR) TO CHRISTIANITY: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 4(2), 49-60. Retrieved from journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=4
Chicago
Edimeh, Francis Ohiemi. "THE RESISTANCE OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION (ATR) TO CHRISTIANITY: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 4, no. 2 (February 2020), 49-60. Accessed February, 2020. journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=4.

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Keywords:
African Traditional Religion, Christianity, Syncretism

Abstract:
The vigor with which the African Traditional Religion (ATR) has continued to resist the onslaught of Christianity is a cause of academic preoccupation. Philosophers, sociologists, theologians, religious leaders, etc have pondered on how Christianity which is highly organized, armed with a Scripture, an army of missionaries and backed by an acclaimed superior culture; unexpectedly could not and still cannot decimate the adjudged inferior religion of the Africans. Historians are not left out in this inquiry. Thus, this paper examined the historical perspective of the issue. With information garnered from relevant literature, this paper investigated the deep spiritual and cultural attachment of Africans to their indigenous religion even when they professed Christianity; and how it was this same attachment and resilience that made the Africans to export their religion to Europe, America and the Caribbean.

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