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Makale
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Necati Sümer, Doç. Dr.
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Afrika Kıtasının Yeni Dini Hareketi: Godianizm
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Eskiyeni
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Dinler Tarihi
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Afrika Dinleri
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2019
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sy. 38
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ss. 103-122
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Godianism is a new religious movement that emerged in Nigeria, a country of the African continent in the 20th century. This movement opposed to Western colonialism and the religious conception it brought. Godianism combined the traditional beliefs of Igbos, the indigenous people of Nigeria, with the new interpretation of Christianity. Thus, it has imposed its existence as a syncretic movement with the name first as the National Church of Nigeria and later as Godianism. Its founder K.O.K Onyioha is the religious leader of this movement. This movement has its own teaching, worships, rituals and festivals. Godianism has been a movement that defended the belief in a single god in a continent like Africa where there were many gods. The understanding of the creator and the great God has been identified by the names Godian or Chineke. This belief system has its own holy text and place of worship. Godianism inspired and adopted many worship and ritual from African traditional beliefs, the church construction and some religious practices from Christianity, and the beliefs such as karma and reincarnation from the Indian religions. Although Godianism bears nationalistic and regional motifs, it has been spreading with the claim of being a universal belief system. In this context, the aim of our study is to address this new religious movement in Africa in all aspects in the light of existing sources.
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