The Impact of Modernity on Traditional Burial Rites in Nkanu West Enugu State Nigeria
Student: Promise Chinagorum Chukwu (Project, 2025)
Department of Religious and Cultural Studies
University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State
Abstract
This research focused on the impact of modernity on traditional burial rites in Nkanu west Enugu State Nigeria. the socio-cultural and economic values of traditional burial rites are being eroded by modernity thereby creating conflict of ideas and practices. This study investigated the burial rites of the Nkanu west and the impact modernity has had in those rites of passage. This research used qualitative method, which entails the use of primary data collection of oral interviews as well as secondary data through textbooks, journals and internet sources. This study discovered that modernity has influenced the mode of preparing for burials, dressing the corpse and even our means of participating in burials. Modernity has influenced the expenditure in burials that is supposed to be seamless according to traditional requirements. This study therefore recommends that modernity be put aside and the traditional rites that were handed to us by tradition be taken-up to lesser high expenditure in burials.
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- Binyaminu Usman Polytechnic, Hadijia, Jigawa State 3
- Borno State University, Maiduguri, Borno State 15
- Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State 1
- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra State 254
- College of Agriculture and Animal Science, Mando Road, Kaduna, Kaduna State 1
- College of Agriculture, Science and Technology, Lafia, Nasarawa State 8
- College of Education, Akwanga (affl To Ahmadu Bello Univ, Zaria) 1
- College of Education, Eha Amufu, (Affliliated To Unn), Enugu State 1
- College of Education, Warri (Affiliated To Delta State Uni, Abraka), Delta State 1
- College of Health Technology, Calabar, Cross River State 1