Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination
This research was carried out to investigate the various cultural practices of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria that were/are useful in saving the ecosystem from capricious human activities in traditional society. This is with the aim of finding how they could be adopted to checkmate the modern pr...
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| author | Chinyere Lilian Nkama Kingsley Nwannennaya Okoro Emmanuel Egbule |
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| description | This research was carried out to investigate the various cultural practices of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria that were/are useful in saving the ecosystem from capricious human activities in traditional society. This is with the aim of finding how they could be adopted to checkmate the modern practices that degrade and violate the environment. The researchers adopted a qualitative approach for data collection. This is because the research is a social survey and addresses social issues. As such, data were collected using surveys and oral/personal communication. The study discovered that there is a nexus between indigenous cultural/cosmological knowledge and ecosystem preservation/sustainability and as such notes that the current earth devastation within modern Igbo society is a result of neglect of the indigenous knowledge system. The work observes that, if this knowledge system is incorporated into current ethics of eco-preservation, the present eco-risk would diminish. The work therefore recommends that cultural/indigenous environmental education, advocacy and ecosystem activism and locally managed ecotourism be incorporated into both formal and informal education of the modern Igbo knowledge system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-86781e014de840b6bdbadc292e265f0e2023-11-24T06:36:12ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442022-11-011311106610.3390/rel13111066Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-ImaginationChinyere Lilian Nkama0Kingsley Nwannennaya Okoro1Emmanuel Egbule2Department of Philosophy/Religion and Cultural Studies, Alex Ekwueme Federal Univesity, Abakaliki 1010, NigeriaDepartment of Philosophy/Religion and Cultural Studies, Alex Ekwueme Federal Univesity, Abakaliki 1010, NigeriaDepartment of Philosophy/Religion and Cultural Studies, Alex Ekwueme Federal Univesity, Abakaliki 1010, NigeriaThis research was carried out to investigate the various cultural practices of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria that were/are useful in saving the ecosystem from capricious human activities in traditional society. This is with the aim of finding how they could be adopted to checkmate the modern practices that degrade and violate the environment. The researchers adopted a qualitative approach for data collection. This is because the research is a social survey and addresses social issues. As such, data were collected using surveys and oral/personal communication. The study discovered that there is a nexus between indigenous cultural/cosmological knowledge and ecosystem preservation/sustainability and as such notes that the current earth devastation within modern Igbo society is a result of neglect of the indigenous knowledge system. The work observes that, if this knowledge system is incorporated into current ethics of eco-preservation, the present eco-risk would diminish. The work therefore recommends that cultural/indigenous environmental education, advocacy and ecosystem activism and locally managed ecotourism be incorporated into both formal and informal education of the modern Igbo knowledge system.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/11/1066Igboreligioncultureecosystemnature preservation |
| spellingShingle | Chinyere Lilian Nkama Kingsley Nwannennaya Okoro Emmanuel Egbule Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination Religions Igbo religion culture ecosystem nature preservation |
| title | Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination |
| title_full | Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination |
| title_fullStr | Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination |
| title_short | Eco-Preservation through the Lens of Igbo Beliefs and Practices: A Re-Imagination |
| title_sort | eco preservation through the lens of igbo beliefs and practices a re imagination |
| topic | Igbo religion culture ecosystem nature preservation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/11/1066 |
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