RELIGIOUS STUDIES GRADUATES AND UNEMPLOYMENT: ANY PROSPECT?

Abstract

Religion is a reality in human experience and pervades through life.It describes man’s relationship with the supernatural world or the reality generally referred to as God. Religion in some places is regarded as an inferior course, so easy that students can use it to complete the number of subjects they do.The negative belief about religion makes some parents to stigmatize it as they see it as a course that does not bring much money as courses like medicine, surveying, law, to mention but a few. Sequel to the negative belief, graduates of Religion are faced with unemployment upon graduation.The way the course has been underrated is such that people think that anybody doing Religion will be a pastor or an evangelist. With this notion, graduates of Religion are not easily employed in the national labor force except the classroom to teach the course. This paper therefore throws light to the relevance of religion and the wider scope/opportunities open to graduates of Religion in the society especially the contemporary Nigeria. The researchers adopt a historical method of research in this work