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Study examines indigenous spiritualities' influence on Christian identity in Africa, indicating deeper religious experiences.
African Christianity is replete with arrays of semiotic dimensions and symbolic expressions embedded in indigenous spiritualities and values. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this study examines how these indigenous signs have influenced and shaped the expression of Christianity. Drawing from ethnographic research among the Akans of Ghana and the Ibibios and Igbos of Nigeria, this study explores how these semiotic dimensions contribute to religious identity and meaning making among African Christians. Theologizing through indigenous concepts only deepens the Christian experience and offers new ways of contextualization.
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