📄 Research Article
AJCR Vol. 11, No. 4 (2024)
“BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON” ( PSALM 137:1-6): A SOCIO-RELIGIOUS ANALOGY OF THE JEWS IN DIASPORA IN LIGHT OF OIDA’S STRUGGLE FOR A HOME IN FCT, ABUJA, NIGERIA.
Nesta ANDY-PHILIP,
Department of Christian Studies &Religious Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria.
Open Access
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Research Article
Abstract
Living in one’s ancestry home brings a sense of fulfillment and a sense of socio- economic cum political and spiritual security. Because an ancestry home is the fulcrum of corporate existence of a total person or people hence, enhances free association, self realization and social development. To detach oneself voluntarily or forcefully from one’s ancestry home is not just undesirable shift to another location but at worst akin to an anathema with significance of one’s cultural identity going into extinction and to a certain degree one being culturally uprooted. The objective of this paper hinges on the study of the Jews in Diaspora in their traumatic experience as consequence of their detachment from their ancestry home, analogically, locating a similar traumatic experience among the Original Inhabitants of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Nigeria. Through exegetical and socio-religious approach, the study deduced that just like the Jews were detached from their ancestry home, the Original Inhabitants of FCT seems to have been detached from their ancestry home hence, frantic and vehement struggle for justice namely, an ideal home.
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APA 7th Edition:
Nesta ANDY-PHILIP, (2024). “BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON” ( PSALM 137:1-6): A SOCIO-RELIGIOUS ANALOGY OF THE JEWS IN DIASPORA IN LIGHT OF OIDA’S STRUGGLE FOR A HOME IN FCT, ABUJA, NIGERIA.. Academic Journal of Current Research, 11(4), 20-27. https://doi.org/
Nesta ANDY-PHILIP, (2024). “BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON” ( PSALM 137:1-6): A SOCIO-RELIGIOUS ANALOGY OF THE JEWS IN DIASPORA IN LIGHT OF OIDA’S STRUGGLE FOR A HOME IN FCT, ABUJA, NIGERIA.. Academic Journal of Current Research, 11(4), 20-27. https://doi.org/
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Nesta ANDY-PHILIP, . “BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON” ( PSALM 137:1-6): A SOCIO-RELIGIOUS ANALOGY OF THE JEWS IN DIASPORA IN LIGHT OF OIDA’S STRUGGLE FOR A HOME IN FCT, ABUJA, NIGERIA.. Acad. J. Curr. Res.. 2024;11(4):20-27. DOI:
Nesta ANDY-PHILIP, . “BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON” ( PSALM 137:1-6): A SOCIO-RELIGIOUS ANALOGY OF THE JEWS IN DIASPORA IN LIGHT OF OIDA’S STRUGGLE FOR A HOME IN FCT, ABUJA, NIGERIA.. Acad. J. Curr. Res.. 2024;11(4):20-27. DOI:
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