RCR 124 Notable Points on Religion in Nigeria PDF

NOTABLE POINT ON RCR 124 (RELIGION IN NIGERIA ) COMPILED BY SCHOLAR AARON FACUTLY OF EDUCATION 1. Author of the book religion in Nigeria: Prof. AKITI GLORY ALAMU. 2. Karl max define religion as the opium of the masses 3. Element of African t...

NOTABLE POINT ON RCR 124 (RELIGION IN NIGERIA ) COMPILED BY SCHOLAR AARON FACUTLY OF EDUCATION 1. Author of the book religion in Nigeria: Prof. AKITI GLORY ALAMU. 2. Karl max define religion as the opium of the masses 3. Element of African traditional religion : belief in god, belief in divinity, N belief in spirit, belief in ancestor, belief in the practices of magic and medicine 4. RO African tradition religion has no founder and Holy scripture 5. African traditional religion is the religion that has been handed down by our forefather AA 6. Primordial divinity include ogun, obatala, esu, 7. Personified Divinities is identified by Awolalu and Dopamu as the personification of natural forces and phenomena. It is an association of spirits with natural objects. Earth(Ile), oya, yemoja, osun, ogbese, elemi, igede-ekiti, Olokun, orosun(idanre), oke Ibadan and Olumo rock are examples of Personified Divinities. 8. Categories of African Divinities: Primordial, Deified and Personified Divinities. 9. Awolalu and Dopamu submitted that the divinities emanated or engendered from God/Supreme being. Divinities are not created. 10. Divinities That Lived In Heaven Was Call Primordial Divinity By Awolalu Dopamu Call Primordial As Divinities Of Heaven N 11. Abeokuta is know as the gate way of Christianity 12. There Is no parameter to measure or gauge the best religion was RO said by YUSUF ALI AND OSASONA 13. the latin word : extral eccelesiam nulla salus means outside church no salvation AA 14. Section 10 1998 constitution says: no state should adopt a particular religion as a state religion 15. Section 38 1998 constitution says: every person shall be entitled to the freedom of thought and conscience and religion 16. Religion is a two edge sword according to Dopamu are incohesion and division 17. PFN Pentecostal fellowship of Nigeria 18. CAN Christian association of Nigeria 19. NIREC Nigeria inter-religion council 20. The first attempt of Christianizing is known as PALACE RELIGION 21. BITTER KOLA is to OLD AGE, HONEY, SALT AND SUGARCANE symbolizes SWEETNESS OF LIFE AMONG OTHERS N 22. RELIGION as a naughty child of a difficult mother was said by BABS MALA RO 23. Religion fanatism is also known as naughty child of a difficult mother 24. Yusuf Ali and Osasona remarks that there is no parameter of AA calculus to gauge or measure the best religion 25. Religion particularity : Quran 10:99 “ if God wish the whole world to worship him in the same way, he would have done so. 26. El-zak-zaky reject the idea of secular state in the Nigeria constitution 27. ISLAM mean peace 28. Jihad means fighting the cause of Allah 29. The gods are crying, my father’s god are crying for burial….. for a final rite. This statement was made BY KOFI AWOONOR 30. Factors that contribute to the first failure are LANGUAGE BARRIER AND HARSH WEATHER N 31. Christianity came to be planted permanently in the 19th CENTURY with various domination RO 32. Examples of Orthodox churches are Catholic, Methodist, Anglican, Baptist and Qua Ibom 33. Examples of Pentecostal churches are Church of God Mission AA International, Assemblies of God Church, The Redeemed Christain Church of God (RCCG), New Covenant church, Living Faith Church, Deeper Life Bible Church and Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries (MFM) 34. Examples of Neo-Pentecostal Churches ; Christ Embazzy Church, Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Potters’ Porch, Impact  Church and Masterpiece International Christain Centre (MICC) 35. Thomas Birch Freeman of the METHODIST CHURCH 36. Revd. And Mrs. Henry Townsed of the ANGLICAN COMMUNION 37. King kosoko of lagos was a slave dealer after been abolished in the 16th century 38. King kosoko was dethroned and his cousin was install as king N 39. The trial of Brother jero was written by wole Soyinka RO 40. Bro Jero was a fake prophet who was swindling people with his fake prophecy. 41. King Shodeke of Abeokuta embraced and receive Christianity 42. Religion as a concept is derived from a Latin word RELIGARE which AA means to bind together, bring together & to fuse together 43. 1977 Religious crisis in Kano (3 Decade) 44. Emile Durkheim the father of sociology defines Religion as those things that are sacred and which are also set apart from the community or the Church 45. Sigmund Freud the father of Psychology said, Religion is the Return of the Depressed 46. Sigmund Freud in his book THE TOTEM & TABOO he expressed that when man must have committed crime or atrocity he will become remouse, which will make him to beg for forgiveness 47. Sigmund Freud in his book THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION, said N Religion will die naturally when man comes of age 48. Scientifically the submission of Sigmund Freud has not captured the RO excess and reality of Religion because, Religion cannot become an object of science, Religion and Science goes together 49. Euhemerism a Greek writer and Philosopher said that Religion is a AA product of deification and deification is a process whereby a statue or an object is raised to the position of god 50. Who interpret the English Bible into Yoruba AJAYI CROWTHER 51. Prophet Mohammed died in _____year 632AD 52. ISLAM finally came to existence in Nigeria in ___ century 16TH 53. The ___ act of parliament of England abolished slave trade 1807 54. Who took over when king kosoko was dethroned KING SODEKE 55. Hope waddell reached calabar in ___ year 1846 56. Thomas freeman and his wife arrived in badagry in the year 1842 57. Captain Bowen arrived at ijaye in the year 1850 N 58. the first Africa bishop of the Niger delta diocese is Ajayi Crowther 59. Religion has two edged sword symbolizes cohesion and division RO 60. As-sufh ----- prophet Ibrahim 61. Al-Tawrah ----prophet musa 62. Al-injil---------prophet isah AA 63. Az-Zabur------- prophet Daud 64. Al-Quran------- prophet Muhammad.  SECTION B 1. The Scholars who coined AFREL from African Religion are; dopamu, dime nabofa 2. In the 18th century, those who asserted that ‘Afrel are bereft of GOD, history, culture, and medicine’ are; Talbot, Elli, Bouche, Baudin and Farrow N 3. Edwin Smith said ‘How could untutored African conceive GOD’ RO 4. Idowu one of doyens of afrel said ‘in all things, Africans are religious’ 5. Ali Mazrui supported idowu and said ‘before te arrival of the cross and crescent, Africans have being in worship’ AA 6. Dopamu said ‘there is no society where religion does not exist’ 7. J.S Mbiti said ‘Africans are notoriously religious’ 8. Abe Avers said ‘In the beginning it was religion and in the end, it shall all be religion’ 9. Ejiofor said ‘Men take off from religion, march along religion, and arrives at religion’ 10. African cum Indigenous religion means African combined with indigenous religion’ 11. Awolalu said ‘Afrel had been handed down by our forefathers to the present generation of Africans’ 12. African has no historical founder and no sacred scripture like Christianity and ISLAM N 13. Afrel depicts that religious practices are the keystone and cornerstone of their beliefs and ways of life RO 14. Religion is from the latin word ‘religare’ which means to bind, to bring together, to exist side-by-side and to fuse 15. Religion is the binding force in human society and as the capacity to AA bringing people together 16. Africans are not bereft of religion 17. Ezekwona said ‘African religious ethics is communitarian ethics’ 18. Afrel is a natural religion, independent of revelation 19. Idowu, Awolalu, Dopamu, Nabofa and Kayode gave 5 structures  which are; belief in God, belief in divinities, belief in ancestors, belief in spirits and belief in the practice of magic and medicine 20. Africans divinities are categories into 3 groups; Primordial, deified and personified 21. Primordial divinities are Obatala, orisa-nla, olokun, orunmila, esu and ogun in Yoruba belief system N 22. Deified diviniie are sango, ayeelala, sopona, amadioha, sokogba, xevioso and others RO 23. Personified divinities are olumo-rocvk, oke- ibadan, erin ijesha etc 24. Mbiti refers to the belief in ancestors as ‘the living dead’ 25. Osanyin is the divinity in charge of medicine and magic AA 26. Hofpe and Wooodward aver said ‘a basic understanding of afrel will provide knowledge of customs and attitudes’ 27. In 19th and 20th century, there was a setback in African religion cause of the societal, economic and political development 28. The adherents of the proselytizing religions of ISLAM and  Christianity gave a dead blow to this indigenous religious tradition 29. Adeerigbe said ‘Afrel was involved in human sacrifices and the images of a missionary in a cannibal’s pot about to be cooked or eaten 30. According to Farunga, Afrel sacred spots is known to be ‘forest of the gods’ which were destroyed by missionaries 31. There was a translantic slave trade In 16th to 18th centuries that N enabled thousands of Africans to be sold into slavery 32. The eclipse of African religion does not mean the demuse of the RO religion 33. K0fi Awoo nor is a Ghanian writer and poet who wrote the poem ‘the gods are crying’ AA 34. The 21st century staged a strong re-emergence of afrel 35. Bitter kola is to old age, honey, salt while Sugarcane symbolizes sweetness of life among others 36. Some institute In the west have centers or institutes for African studies e.g, Harvard university, Saint Andrews, Cambridge university,  Oxford university and university of Georgia 37. Afrel receiving global attention I n countries like Venezuela, Brazil, Carolina, Argentina, Trinadad and Tobago 38. Orisha worship is massively pronounced and celebrated in oyotunji village in the united states 39. The rites, beliefs and practices of Afrel is popularized through N Yoruba stage and films 40. International congress of oral tradition and culture is also known as RO orisha world congress 41. UNESCO – United National Educational and Scientific Organization 42. UNESCO set up a progamme for the digitalization of ifa corpus which AA span from 4 years SECTION C 65. ISLAM means religion of peace and was popularized by prophet Mohammed 66. At the cave of Hiral, he received the first revelation 67. Quran 96;1-5 is the revelation to prophet Mohammed 68. Mohammed was born 570 A.D and died 632 A.D 69. There are 4 caliphs which are; Abu Bakr [A.D 632-634], Umar [A.D 634 -644], Uthman [A.D 644-656], Alli [A.D 656-661] 70. Umar developed ISLAM calendar while Uthman standardized the Quran N 71. Quran 15;94 states that ‘proclaim openly the revelation you have received to the people’ RO 72. The first dynastic movement began in ISLAM and Umayyad dynasty [661-750] started with the reign of Mu’awiyah [602-680] AD 73. The second dynasty Abbasid dynasty [750-1258] A.D AA 74. When makkan conspired against mohamme, he migrated to medina in A.D 622 which called ANNO HIJRAH 75. ISLAM is predominant in north Africa such as Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya 76. ISLAM came through Timbuktu trader from Mali empire into Africa  they penetrated kanem bornu empire with their trade and religion of ISLAM 77. ISLAM was referred to as ‘Esin Imale’ meaning ‘Religion of Malians’ 78. The introduction of ISLAM is in 2 ways; 9th century and 11th by the Timbuktu traders from mali 79. The ISLAM penetrated Nigeria in 11th century N 80. In the 19th century, 1804, a jihad was carried out by UTHMAN DAN FODIO RO 81. Gbadamosi posits that it was in the 16th century that ISLAM spread to the south-west 82. Sects of ISLAM are; SHITTES, SUNNIS, AMADDIYAH, TIJANIYYAH AA OR SUFI, QADDRIYAH, BAMIDELE MOVEMENTS, NASFAT, IZALA MOVEMENTS etc. 83. Emerick, an authority in Umayyad dynasty said ‘the muslim empire expanded and enlarged during the next century’ 84. The Abbassid dynasty is from the descendancy from the prophet’s  uncle 85. Abbassid ddynasty was one of wealth and advances in the science, literature and mathematics SECTON D N 86. The founder of Christianity was born about 4 B.C RO 87. Christianity arose in Palestine among the Jews, where Jesus lived, died and resurrected 88. JESUS played the role of a reformer AA 89. Christianity has been described as a way of life and an essential monotheistic religion 90. TIWARI argues that Christianity can as well be regarded as an extension of Judaism in a more elevated direction 91. The catholic holy ghost fathers with the JESUITS fathers penetrated Africa and other continents 92. In the 16th century, Christianity penetrated into Nigeria through Benin and Warri by the catholic holy ghost fathers 93. At their first attempt, Christianity was embraced as a result of the Gun-powders and the firearms the European promised them against imperialism 94. The converted chiefs were receiving baptismal names, having N considered as an additional religion 95. ERIVWO refer to attempt of Christianising in Nigeria as ‘palace RO religion’ 96. Factors that led to the failure of the first attempt are; ignorance of the African worldview, language barrier and harsh weather AA 97. Christianity came permanently in the 19th century with various denomination 98. The act of parliament passed in England in 1807 abolished slave trade 99. Traditional rulers were asked to sign treaties on the abolition of slave trade 100. KING KOSOKO of lagos was a slave dealer who was deposed and his cousin AKINTOYE was enthroned in his stead 101. KOSOKO’S deposition was like ‘the trial of brother Jero’ written by Wole Soyinka about a fake prophet with fake prophecy 102. The free-slaves who settled in Freetown and Badagry later sent for foreign missionaries to come Africa N 103. In 1837, Ferguson sent Thomas birch freeman of the methodists church to come to Badagry with wife in 1842 RO 104. K 105. King shodke warmly embraced them, in Abeokuta as they celebrate Christmas AA 106. Modupe Oduyoye calls Abeokuta ‘the gateway of Christianity’ or ‘sunrise with the tropics’ 107. Captain Bowen of the American Baptist Convention at ijaye in 1850 and 1858, Ijaye started receiving missionaries 108. Rev. Smith went to Ogbomosho during this period in 1851 109. Mr. and Mrs David Hinderer penetrated ibadan and established the first Anglican church called ‘St. David Anglican church’’ kudeti, molete. And both of them were ordained in 1855 110. Oke-ogunpa and Oke-aremo welcomed missionaries 111. Rev. Charles Philip went Ilesha in 1870 and ondo in 1877 112. Hope Waddell of congregational reached Calabar in 1846 N 113. In the east it was all catholic communion RO 114. Rev. fr Schon and Crampton had penetrated north but were restricted 115. Later in 20th century the north began a missionary like Sudan interior mission AA 116. Catholic, Methodist, Anglican, Baptist, Qua ibom etc. are churches brought into which is referred to as orthodox or mainline churches 117. Towards the end of the 19th of century to the early 20th century, Afrrican Indigenous Churches [AICs] came on board and they are Cherubim and Seraphim in 1925, Christ Apostolic Church in 1930, Church of lord, Aladura in 1947, Celestial church of Christ in 1947 118. In the 20th century, the Pentecost church are; church of God mission international, assemblies of God church, the redeem Christian church of God, the Covenant church, living faith church, deeper life church, M.F.M 119. The 21st century churches are called neo Pentecostal charismatic church and new wave churches and they are; Christ embassy church, COZA, potters porch, masterpiece international Christian church [MICC] N 120. Rev. Samuel Ajayi Crowther as the first African bishop of the Niger delta diocese penetrated Onitsha in 1858, Kalabari in 1864, brass in RO 1868 and bonny AA REMEMBER RCR 124 IS AN (A) 99/100 ISPOSSIBLE IF YOU STUDY WEL. BEST OF LUCK…… AA RO N