NEO-LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE OF GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY TO DEVELOPMENT OF ENGENNI IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA

Abstract

The history of Christian religion (Christianity) dates back to the first century. It started within the Jewish culture frontiers, and spread to the rest of the gentile world and other continents of the world including Africa. In the past twenty centuries Christianity criss-crossed several cultural frontiers; shifting the paradigm to Global Christianity which is currently a religion coated with several cultural identities, complementing Christianity to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ and the various cultures through the practice of Global Christianity. The paper tries to draw a thin line between Global Christianity and Christianity-which flowed to Engenni a homogenous ethnic Kingdom in the Niger Delta oil rich region of Nigeria with the message of salvation in powerful archetypal water Imagery of ship, tidal waves, sail and anchor. The ship carried the message of salvation (Christianity and western culture (Global Christianity) Both changed the world view and narrative of the Engenni people, and sparked off socio-economic, and religio-cultural development expressed in the development of Indigenous Church-the Spiritual faith of Christ church international (SFCCI) as a coloration of Global Christianity. The change would foster further development of Engenni and academic Scholarship in Africa. For effective study, the paper adopts the phenomenological and historic methods of research, and max weber's functional theory of change with the rational choice theory. Both theories are liberal in approach to change in society. The paper concluded that Global Christianity in Engenni Provided the Engenni people alternative and a broader platform of choice to meet their survival needs and development, from a neo-liberal perspective. It therefore recommended that Global Christianity should be promoted in Engenni and Africa.