Development of New Theories and Expediency of Reviewing Academic Tradition in the Study of Religion in Nigerian Universities

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dc.contributor.authorOlatayo, George Olayeye
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-07T16:32:37Z
dc.date.available2025-04-07T16:32:37Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractFor several decades now, it seems the study of religion and the evolution of new theories about the scientific study of religion in Nigerian tertiary institutions have been one of the major critical areas in which religious scholars have been seriously engaging in the academic discourse. In the recent milieu, scholars have been attempting to make the scientific studies of religious practices and traditions relevant and more fascinating through various academic lens of methodologies, approaches, and functional theories. This is to make the studies of religion multidisciplinary, multidimensional, and multifunctional in their approaches both in learning and practices. This, hitherto, would bring about empirical manifestations of practical knowledge of religious traditions and the scientific studies of religions through reliable data. Of course, structured activities in terms of accumulating knowledge and progressive critical dispassionate research in the scientific studies of religions, which are well disseminated through teaching, learning, and literature are what is taken to be the manifestations of reality of academic tradition in the study of religion in Nigerian Universities. It is observed that some religious scholars in Nigeria have different views, opinions, and standpoints, which do not consciously build on academic traditions and a well reviewed academic curriculum that is indigenous based on different approaches in the study of religions. In most cases, the viewpoint on religious issues by the scholars seems not to either be well known or practically engaged in thorough academic scrutinizing. However, this paper adopts a descriptive-analytical method and content analysis of historical research in this study area by explaining the current practices of academic culture and identifying the observed practices that do not engender robust academic tradition, discourse, and literature in the study of religion in Nigerian Universities. The paper proposes that there should be an attempt to promote interactions among Indigenous scholars with engaging academic works in the study of religion. This is not a view to advocating for ethnocentrism but organized efforts to domesticate indigenous knowledge with academic framework in the study of religion.
dc.identifier.issn2787-0308
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.run.edu.ng/handle/123456789/4260
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherHUMANUS DISCOURSE
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 5; No 1.
dc.titleDevelopment of New Theories and Expediency of Reviewing Academic Tradition in the Study of Religion in Nigerian Universities
dc.typeArticle
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