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TOWARD AN EMPIRICAL INQUIRY OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN THE INTERFACE OF LIBATION RITUALS IN AFRICA: EXPERIENCE FROM IBIBIO, NIGERIA

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

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Title TOWARD AN EMPIRICAL INQUIRY OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN THE INTERFACE OF LIBATION RITUALS IN AFRICA: EXPERIENCE FROM IBIBIO, NIGERIA
 
Creator Essien, Essien Daniel; University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
 
Subject Religion
Religious language, Libation, Worship, Ibibio Rituals, Communication
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Description Experience to date has highlighted the importance of language in the relationship between God and man as exemplified in the matrix of all human endeavour. This is because prior to its being a tool that is used by humans; language had been the foundation which supports human beings for the purpose of communicating his intentions. This paper examines religious language of libation in Ibibio indigenous knowledge system with special focus on its problems of traditional equivocation and analogy in an attempt to provide a meaningful vehicle by which God can be expressed. This paper discovers that in most recent findings on libation, it is more creative, spiritual, dogmatic, linguistic and imaginative medium for religious assertions through incantation and invocations which manifest beyond an empirical base. The paper concludes that libation rituals are meaningful medium of communing with the spirit.
 
Publisher Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
 
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Date 2014-10-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/521
10.14738/assrj.16.521
 
Source Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal; Vol 1, No 6 (2014): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal; 129-141
10.14738/assrj.16.2014
 
Language eng
 
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