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