HISTORY OF WORLD RELIGIONSNEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN NIGERIAMETHODOLOGY FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND SOCIETYTHE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFSRELIGION IN THE SOCIETYSOCIOLOGY OF RELIGIONMEANING OF SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGIONTHE CONCEPT OF SOCIETYTHE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND SOCIETYSOCIALIZATION AND RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATIONRELIGION AND SECULARIZATIONTHE FAMILY PATTERNFUNCTIONS OF RELIGION IN THE SOCIETYSOCIAL THEORIES ON THE FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION IN SOCIETYDurkheim Theory of ReligionMarxist T...
RELIGION PLURALISM IN AFRICARELIGION AND CULTUREMARRIAGE AND SOCIAL CHANGEDIMENSIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOURSRELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTSRELIGION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICARELIGION AND POLITICSRELIGION AND SECULARIZATIONRELIGION AND GENDERRELIGION AND ABORTION CAMPAIGNRELIGION AND CONFLICTSRELIGION AND LEADERSHIPRELIGION AND STRATIFICATIONRELIGION AND AGENTS OF CHANGE IN AFRICARELIGION AND EDUCATIONRELIGION AND SCIENCERELIGION AND DEMOCRACYRELIGION AND HEALTHRELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND...
THE CONCEPT OF MORAL EDUCATIONTHE CONCEPT OF MORALITYCOMPONENTS OF THE NIGERIAN LAWSMEANS OF COMMUNICATING MORAL EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLTHE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL SYLLABUS AS PREPARED BY THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCILA CRITIQUE OF CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS STUDIES EDUCATION SYLLABUS AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVELMODEL LESSON NOTESTHE CONCEPT OF CONSCIENCESCHOOL WORSHIPMETHODS OF TEACHING MORAL EDUCATIONRESOURCES FOR THE TEACHING OF MORAL EDUCATIONFACTORS THAT CAN AID SUCCESSFUL TEACHING AND ...
THE CONCEPT OF SOCIETY RELIGION IN SOCIETYTHEORIES ON FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION IN SOCIETYDIMENSIONS OF RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOURORGANIZATION OF RELIGIOUS BEHAVIORRELIGION AND STRATIFICATIONRELIGION AND CULTURERELIGION AND SECULARIZATIONRELIGION AND POLITICS RELIGION AND SCIENCESEXUALITY AND RELIGIOUS DISCOURSETHE FAMILY PATTERN MARRIAGE AND FAMILYRELIGION AND HEALTH
TYPES OF RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AND THE CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPANTS.THE PLACE AND PLATFORM FOR DIALOGUEGUIDELINES FOR RELIGIOUS DIALOGUEFACTORS THAT PROMOTE RELIGIOUS DIALOGUEMODULE 2-PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS DIALOGUERECOGNIZING COMMON VALUES IN RELIGIONSFORGETTING THE WRONGS OF THE PASTELIMINATION OF PREJUDICETHE SCRIPTURAL BASIS FOR RELIGIOUS DIALOGUEUNRESOLVED DIFFICULTIESMODULE 3 RELEVANCE OF RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENTSERVICE TO HUMANKINDORGANIZATION OF SOCIETYHUMAN IMITATION OF DIV...
ETYMOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF RELIGIONDEFINING RELIGION: WHAT IS RELIGION?COMMON CHARACTERISTICS/FEATURES OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONSAPPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS CONTENTRELIGIOUS STUDIES AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINEREQUIREMENTS FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIONPROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS CONTENTSTHEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF RELIGIOUS CONTENTSRELIGIOUS PLURALISMWORLD RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IWORLD RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IISTRUCTURE OF RELIGIONRELIGIOUS AGENCIES AND SPECIALISTSRELIGION AND OTHER INSTITUTI...
ETYMOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF RELIGIONDEFINING RELIGION: WHAT IS RELIGION?COMMON CHARACTERISTICS/FEATURES OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONSAPPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS CONTENTRELIGIOUS STUDIES AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINEREQUIREMENTS FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIONPROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS CONTENTSTHEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF RELIGIOUS CONTENTSRELIGIOUS PLURALISMWORLD RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IWORLD RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IISTRUCTURE OF RELIGIONRELIGIOUS AGENCIES AND SPECIALISTSRELIGION AND OTHER INSTITUTI...
PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIARELIGIOUS SITUATION IN ARABIATHE BIRTH OF MUHAMMADTHE CALL AND MISSION OF MUHAMMADTHE ORTHODOX CALIPHSTHE UNAYYAD DYNASTY (661-750AD)THE ABBASID DYNASTY (750-1254 AD)MAJOR SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN EARLY ISLAMISLAMIC CULTURE AND PRACTICESTHE EARLY BEGINNING OF ISLAM IN NIGERIATHE SPREAD OF ISLAM TO NIGERIATHE 1804 JIHAD OF UTHMAN DAN FODIOTHE MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTER IN NIGERIATHE IMPACT OF ISLAM ON NIGERIAN SOCIETY
History is replete with bittersweet ironies. But few of these compare in the poignancy or magnitude to the association between the Atlantic slave trade and the subsequent expansion of Christianity on the African continent. As with so many epochal turning points in history, people movement provided the seed plot.
Among all the problems known to OT studies one of the far fetching in its importance is that of the studies of OT. For its concern is to construct the complete picture of the OT realm of belief.
Christianity began with the birth of Jesus as the saviour of mankind. Before his fulfilment of his birth in the New testament, Prophet Isaiah prophesied that a virgin will be with a child and born a son and call him Emmanuel. Then the prediction was fulfilled exactly in the new Testament in both Matthew and Luke.
In the African world view the spirit is comprised of the visible and the invisible and that between God and humans are spirits. Africans belief there are numerous spiritual beings in the universe that have a stature between God and man but are not identical with either.
The course examines emtology of religion, theories of religions, types of religions, concepts and elements of religions, structure, features, and problems associated with the study of religion. It will also examine religion with the cultural and social context. It will discuss important different scholars who are associated with the academy of religion.
It always amazes me when people act as though the bible was written in English and interpret it as though it was written directly to us with our cultural references. One of the first rule of the Bibles interpretation is that before it was God words to us, it was first God’s word to them (the original readers and hearers). And there is a great deal of distance between us and them, starting with the very words used and how they are used to communicate ideas.
How did the writings of the old testament come to assume it present writing form? What is the nature of these materials these writings are made of? The traditional approach to these questions has been to claim divine origin for all scriptures that is God is directly or ultimately the author. This is claim is called divine inspiration and we shall come back to it towards the end of the course.