Original Research

Singing and Worship in an Anglican Church Liturgy in Egba and Egba West Dioceses, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Israel O.O. Odewole
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 74, No 1 | a4584 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v74i1.4584 | © 2018 Israel O.O. Odewole | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 04 April 2017 | Published: 05 September 2018

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Israel O.O. Odewole, Department of Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

This article looks briefly at the origin or history, nature and emerging trends with regard to the singing and worship in Anglican Church Liturgy in Egba and Egba West Dioceses in the ancient metropolitan city of Abeokuta, Nigeria. The article analyses the data collected from oral interviews using atlas.ti coding method. The data are presented partly by way of frequency tables and charts. The study used qualitative approaches and conducted self-administered interviews on the major leaders, worship leaders or choir members and key lay members of the selected Anglican churches in Abeokuta. The article presents all the narratives from my sample population of the selected churches.

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