JOS JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Religion is many things, but primarily, a belief system that dictates customs and values that members of a particular social and cultural community live by and relate to, and this includes members not of the community. Digital technologies have an impact on how these different ways of belief are expressed and experienced. On the other hand, kinship networks, community obligations, and interfaith accommodation, which have also been influenced by digital technologies, have enabled Indigenous religion, Islam, and Christianity to coexist in Yorubaland, Southwestern Nigeria. Digital technologies have also made it possible to communicate and participate in different communities. Of major concern, however, is misinformation that circulates in these communities. The focus of this paper is to interrogate how religious acts, as coordinated agency, sustain peaceful coexistence across the dominant three religious traditions in Yorubaland in the digitally mediated era. Utilising descriptive, historical, and thematic content analysis of empirical library resources, archival materials, and the Internet. The finding reveals a departure from the indigenous religious beliefs and practices of the old analogue era to a contemporary digital religious space, and this makes the concept of sacredness relative. Also, the paper identifies both continuities and innovations in religion as a process of peacebuilding across different cultural and spiritual communities. In addition, the paper unravelled the importance of digital literacy, religious content, and context sensitivity as strategies for interfaith collaboration in sustaining societal harmony. The paper concludes that digital culture in relation to religious beliefs and traditions has effectively strengthened interfaith relations and the peacebuilding religious ecosystem in Yorubaland.

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