IAAJAH - IGWEBUIKE: An African Journal of Arts and Humanities
Vol. 10 No. 1, 2024
THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENT ON AFRICAN RELIGION AND CHRISTIANITY IN CONTEMPORARY TIME
Daniel D. Zading, Ph.D & Hosea Nakina Martins

ABSTRACT

The environment is a sacred home created for both living and non-living things by creatorAnimator to serve man's purposes. It is considered also a place where African and Christian religions are practise. God is the architect, focal and sacred object of worship, whose creative work manifest in the environment and spur deeper reection and worship of Him in the universe among adherents of African and Christian religions. Climate change and environment have diverse lamentable impact on the duo religions as they are practiced in the environment which remained worrisomeness today. The aim of the paper is to examine the impact of climate change and environment on African and Christian religions in contemporary time, which is continually been championed by man's incessant degradational activities. The paper made use of historic,descriptive, comparative and analytic methods of research. Data were collected through participant observation and observer participant, and consultation of books. The paper unveils that, African and Christian religions have been dreadfully affected by climate change and environment as a result of man's incessant environmental degradational activities. The paper is of the view that, there is need for the two religions to foster preservation of the environment in order to curtailed impact of climate change and environment on African and Christian religions. African and Christian religions are part of nature, and all hands must be on deck to preserve them in order to sustain and foster harmonious utilization, preservation of the environment which is been affected by climate having lamentable impact on the existence and practice of the duo religions respectfully.

Keywords: African Religion, Christianity,climate change, environment and Phenomenology
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