Enculturation/Africanisation
Enculturation is a term that was born out of a religious context but is currently used in different academic disciplines. In religion, the term can be used to refer to the process by which a particular religion for example the Christian faith, comes into a particular cultural context, makes convert, and goes on incarnating that culture for continuous and effective gospel communication. The result of that Christianity’s cultural incarnation is that the religion reaching out (Christianity) takes hold of the content of the culture by using its cultural concepts, but in turn, reflects the identity of that culture. This is to create continuity between the pre-Christian traditional religions of that area with the Christian faith. Africanisation also refers to the same thing as enculturation but with Africanisation, the focus is on the African context and its cultures (Starkloff 1992:69). Now in this study, we shall describe the religious aspect of enculturation/Africanisat...