Marriage and Life after Death: A Model of Regenerative Inculturation

Abstract

The many apparent traumatizing psychological challenges associated with the lived African (Igbo) experience of involuntary childlessness of married couples for which women are often times largely blamed, gave reasonable impetus to Anthony Onyekwe’s master piece Marriage and Life afer Death: A Model of Regenerative Inculturation. This six-chapter-work arranged in three parts, reminisced the increasing disorientation faced by childless couples who have been weighed down by various discriminatory skirmishes, humiliating experiences coupled with the extortion from herbal doctors and the traps of the deceitful self-professed pastors who arrogate to themselves the power to give children. These factors constitute the catalyst that urged the author on, in not only embracing but executing this project tailored to constitute a valuable aid for people struggling with the challenge of balancing their Christian faith with beliefs that begetting children is crucial for elevation to ancestor perceived and likened to sainthood in Africans’ context