Abstract:
every religious belief – ancient and modern is rooted in traditions of
the religious system. its dynamism is assessed through the process of
continuity and discontinuity. the most interesting part of this work is based
on the fact that each religious groups in the society, has its fundamental
religious tenets. in this case, this work is poised to analyze the issue of belief
in reincarnation among the igbo of nigeria and its challenges to christianity.
as a result, the uncompromising pressures from christianity have provoked
the researcher through this work to argue for the defence of reincarnation, a
religious belief and practice in african traditional religion. this work is
poised among other things to filter the mind of christians who misinterpret
the concept of reincarnation or jettison it for one reason or the other. in other
to achieve this, the researcher applied primary source of data collection
which involved interviewing some of the traditionalists or traditional
practitioners in the community who have lived years ago. from this, it is
observed that a typical examples of reincarnated live have been observed in
different part of the community, though related scholarly works were also
used to back up the findings. in effects, this work also melted down the
aggressions from christian’s perspective by unfolding most of convincing
