Traditional Worship Systems Among Agbaja People (A Religio-Historical Examination

ABSTRACT

This study emphasized on the phenomenon and systems of

traditional worship especially among the Agbaja people namely

Ezeagu and Udi Local Governments of Enugu State, Nigeria.

This work in other words, aims at exposing the structure of the

traditional worship of the people from the ages past to the

present. It bears in mind how it could harmonize and enhance

the understandings that exist in the premises of the people’s

traditional religion mostly among the indigenes. To achieve this

purpose, informants, textbooks, journals, magazines, internet,

dictionaries and the researcher’s effort were employed. The

research observes that traditional worship (especially) in Agbaja

is authentic, and it has thriven from the years back till this day.

This work is able to identify the importance of (the elements of)

the people’s traditional worship. It reconciles some

misconceptions of the traditional worship systems, the problems

it encounters etc. All these imply that some existing

misconceptions can be controlled or condemned. Again, with

this, a documentary evidence has been made available. It would

motivate and guide subsequent research.