Religious Studies Research Papers/Topics

Religion in the Twenty-first century and beyond: A Social sciences perspective

The term "Religion" refers to a wide range of social-cultural systems, which include beliefs, morals, ethics, religious practices, thought worlds, worldviews, holy texts and scriptures, sanctified holy places, and institutions that typically relate to the general belief in a God or a supernatural entity. Religion has been known in a wide variety of geographical contexts and situations, and attested since very early times; as a matter of fact, even before the dawn of human civilization. As a m...

Religion and Covid-19 in Nigeria: A Real Journey into New Religious Experience and Expression

The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a recently discovered pneumonia infection discovered in Wuhan, China, lately in December, 2019. The infection spread quickly to other parts of the world in such a way that no country seems to be left out. Consequence to these, the World Health Organization (WHO) declares it a pandemic infection that calls for International concern. Government at various levy find means of controlling its spread though no certified medicine and vaccine for now but a highl...

My Pastor, My Compass to Hell

My Pastor,  my Compass to Hell. An article that boarders on personal experience with religious leaders

THE AMBIGUITIES OF OKOT PBITEK'S DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICAN RELIGION

Abstract A cursory glance reveals that anthropologists, philosophers, historians, colonial masters and missionaries have understood Africa variously. Unfortunately, this understanding has  often been in the negative. This has relegated  Africa  to  the background of mere obscurantism, and misled the world into believing that Africans are savages, primitive and reside in a dark continent where they sleep on trees, eat raw fruits and consort with apes. The need to ...

LUKE 4:14-21 AS MODEL FOR PRAXIS ORIENTED MISSION IN THE CHURCH TODAY

The Missions of the church is the concern that in places where there are no Christians there should be Christians, In other words, Missions means to plant churches through evangelism (Newbigin 23). He adds that the aim of missions should be the establishment of a new Christian community that is as broad as society and is as true to the national situation. He has in mind here the idea of Christianization that is highly questionable today in a world that is characterized by religious pluralism ...