CHRISTIANITY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION:
A Focus on Burial Rites, Leadership and Festivals.
Ehisienmen Charles
Abstract
This paper interrogates the influence of Christianity on the African Traditional Religion (henceforth, ATR). These two religious poles are examined from the prisms of burial rights, leadership and festivals. The troika would enable us to understand the rationale for the ascendancy of the Christian faith while the ATR has taken a cheerless nosedive. Indeed, the latter…