The Survival of Ganda Traditional Religion Before And After the Coming Of Foreign Religions

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dc.contributor.authorKiganda, Jose' Marie
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-06T08:21:47Z
dc.date.available2019-02-06T08:21:47Z
dc.date.issued1998-02-01
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this essay is to search into the factors responsible for the survival of the Ganda traditional religion, despite all efforts from external agents to stamp it out. Importantly, among the external agents - enemies of this indigenous religion, we shall consider the influence of the outside missionaries. These may range from western missionaries from Europe to Arabs from the East coast of Africa. The European missionaries are the main agents of both Christianity and western culture or influences. The Arabs are responsible for Islamic influences and the practice of slave trade. The Baganda were confused as to whether the missionaries were agents of Christianity and Islam or western and Arab cultures respectively. The two above mentioned influences were and still are regarded the traditional enemies of Ganda religion. For these foreign religions have abused Ganda religion as satanic and mere superstition. The missionaries worked hand in hand with the British colonial government in 1929 and passed a law banning all traditional religions in Uganda. Unfortunately, they never succeeded in stamping out the Ganda traditional religion and other respective indigenous religions country wide. With such concrete manifestations of the strength, presence and influence the Ganda religion has on both the converts and non-converts, one cannot but ask for the reason accounting for its survival to date. For it still plays a strong influence on a sizeable number of the Ganda population. The questioning mind becomes even determined to search for answers, learning that most foreign religions have celebrated hundred years of their presence in the land. How is such hostility being resisted? Or better, why have the foreign influences of Christianity and Islam remained ineffective in stamping out traditional beliefs and practice and replacing the with new ones? We need to search for factors accounting for this compound phenomenon, of resistance and survival the Ganda religion has been able to sustain for over one hundred year of open confrontations.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/540
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectForeign Religionsen_US
dc.subjectBugandaen_US
dc.subjectGanda Peopleen_US
dc.titleThe Survival of Ganda Traditional Religion Before And After the Coming Of Foreign Religionsen_US
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