THE PERSISTENCE OF IGBO INDIGENOUS TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN THIS ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
The various cries of woes painted by some scholars concerning the Igbo traditional religious practices being down and out gave rise to the examination of these religious practices, which were believed were already heading to total extinction. These cries, as some scholars depicted sounded like the final deaths of idols and Gods of Igbo people, the collapse of traditional structures in Igboland, the rout of African/Igbo Gods, and the Gods are in continuous disappearance or in continuous retreat and never to come back. These titles or panic cries about the extinction of African/Igbo religious practices caused panic, confusion, and misrepresentation of realities among the Igbo of South-East Nigeria. These hypotheses created by some scholars are the subject matter of this paper, to examine the veracity of these claims through the method of culture-area approach to know how they stand the test of time. It was discovered that these claims are mere semantics, but in reality, Igbo traditional religious practices are only modified and sustained.
Keywords: era, globalization, igbo, indigenous, persistence, practices, religious, traditional