Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

ATR 103 — Ancestorship in African Traditional Religion

ATR department course · Nigerian universities

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Course contents

Definition of ancestors. Ancestors as the living-dead. Ancestor-hood as salvation in African Traditional Religion. Traditional qualifications for ancestorship in different cultural contexts. Influence of Christianity and Islam on the concept of ancestorship. Reassessment of the criteria of becoming an ancestor in modern Africa.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study ATR 103.

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