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The Worship of the Biblical God in the Contemporary Times by the Indigenous Turkana Converts to Roman Catholic Christianity, in North-Western Kenya

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  • Dr. Naila G. Napoo

    (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, P.o. Box 210 40610 BONDO, Kenya)

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This study examined the authentic God that the Indigenous Turkana converts to Roman Catholic Christianity (RCC) worship in the contemporary time. Christianity is one of the Religions of the Book. This is the Bible that is constituted by the Old Testament (OT) and New Testament (NT) sacred texts. The background of this worship has its roots in the adoration of Turkana indigenous God, Akuj, and Yahweh of OT that has been shifted by RCC to the worship of Jesus in the Trinity, in the NT. Hebrew Religion (of OT) has tremendous and profound influence on RCC (of NT) which the Turkana converts to it worship its God, Yahweh. This belief has been brought to reality by the arrival and expansion of European Roman Catholic Christian missionaries in Turkanaland early 1960s and after Kenya gained independence in 1963. Gradually, over time, Catholic beliefs and values exerted an incessant influence and impact and they are diffused and infiltrated into Turkana indigenous beliefs, practices, values and culture. This study draws upon the worship of the “new†inculturated biblical God by the converted indigenous nomadic Turkana persons to “new†religion, RCC.

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  • Dr. Naila G. Napoo, 2022. "The Worship of the Biblical God in the Contemporary Times by the Indigenous Turkana Converts to Roman Catholic Christianity, in North-Western Kenya," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 6(1), pages 768-774, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:6:y:2022:i:1:p:768-774
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