Integration of Christian and Tiriki Death Rituals

Cultural beliefs and ritual practices vary across the world. Christians have a strong belief in the afterlife and much of their lives are directed at achieving eternal peace in heaven. For the traditional African, death does not alter or end the life or the personality of an individual, but only causes a change in prevailing condition. African communities’ involvement in death and burial ritual allows them to co-exist peacefully with the dead. This book reveals an opening through enculturation and reconciliation for peace building and better cohesion among communities with diverse cultural beliefs and practices. The journey of writing this book was partly based on the understanding that there is a relationship between religion, faith, death and burial and the functioning of communities. This link is far too important to warrant merely a cursory inspection. Instead it should be among the most thoroughly scrutinized, researched and best understood in contemporary cultural and religious management system in Kenya. This book in its own way contributes towards alleviation of death as one of the most important phenomenon that is treated with a lot of fear and care. This book will benefit scholars of religion, church ministers and community elders.