DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i07.020

Pages: 760-766

This paper interrogates the changes that have taken place in the religious sphere among the Igbo people South East Nigeria from the pre colonial to the modern day Nigeria and how this has affected the Igbo woman’s socioeconomic life and the impact of all these on the moral and spiritual life of the people. The area of study is the five Igbo speaking states of South East Nigeria. Stratified random sampling technique is used to sample four women,(two young -one educated and one not so educated- and two elderly- also one educated and one not so educated), two men (one elderly and one young), two clergy men and two traditional religious practitioners (twenty seven in all) from the three representative states of Anambra, Ebonyi and Imo from the research area.