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" Transitional family systems of Bwatye in Nigeria: "
D. H. Wonosikou
R. Martinson
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113494
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TLpq304131014
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D. H. Wonosikou
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R. Martinson
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Transitional family systems of Bwatye in Nigeria:\ D. H. WonosikouR. Martinson
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Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary
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1994
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1994
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Th.D.
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317
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The last five decades in the history of Nigeria can be described as a transitional period. In this period, Western influence through European colonization and Christian evangelization of Nigeria has had a great impact on the Bwatye and its traditional culture. My research in Adamawa State from June through September 1992, was undertaken with the initial aim of investigating the modernization of family systems among the Bwatye. Among these people, like many other ethnic groups in Nigeria, this social change has influenced their lifestyle and traditional cultures. Those traditional social features belonging to the Bwatye people have been restructured by new social changes and foreign cultural influences. The New Encyclopedia Britannica defines social change as "any change in social relations, the process that modifies the whole social structure." Since human societies are characterized by their customs, norms, and environments, any change that is imposed on them will easily result in new adaptations and conflicts. It is noted that to some degree, Western education, modernization, industrialization, and the Christian religion have had a "covertly Western-centered evolutionism,"2 on some Bwatye families, while it left many families with a confused and disturbed family life. However, it is equally true that the lives of many families have changed for the better. Among the social institutions affected, the Bwatye family system has been most seriously influenced, not only with particularly striking differences between urban and rural families, but also in individual perceptions and attitudes toward social change and new cultural influences. The purpose of this dissertation, however, is not a critical study of Westernization and social change, but rather a balanced analytical investigation of what happened with the Bwatye. Such a balanced analysis of the situation will provide accurate knowledge needed to raise the awareness of informed pastors and the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN) for doing effective pastoral ministry. Thus it will focus on an approach which provides the church with the most fertile soil for integrating psychological study and Christian theology that define the context of pastoral ministry. ftnThe New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 ed., s.v. "Social Change." 2Ibid.
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African history
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Families family life
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Lutheran Church of Christ
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Philosophy, religion and theology
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Social sciences
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Theology
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