CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE: IMPLICATIONS ON DRESSING

 

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1       Background to the Study

This study examined Christianity and Culture: Implications on Dressing, A Case Study of Assemblies of God Church, Edo Central District. Christianity is a religion that is based on the belief and teachings of Jesus Christ. Culture in its widest usage is the totality of a people's way of life. The agent of Christianity is the church, the community of people who make up the body of believers. The agent of culture is the language, dressing and the people mode of doing things. All these (Christianity and Culture) have one way or the other it affects the dressing of individual(s).

Dressing is an act of putting on clothes. Importance of wearing clothe on the body is in order to protect, beautify or adorn it. Clothes are one of the basic necessities of man. In its widest sense, it includes a great range of material that man wears or applies to the body. Clothing includes dresses, shoes, jewelry, hairdo and make- up. Clothing is also used to show people’s status and the roles they play in society. The clothe someone decides to wear influences the impression people have about such an individual. It also tells about the culture or religion such a person comes from. It can also affect the person’s comfort and self-confidence. The dressing pattern of an individual is a kind of “sign language” that communicates a complete set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed...

1.2       Statement of the Problem

Christianity to a great extent upholds a different culture which most times are contrary to the thing of God. Converts who are won to the church are sometimes faced with the challenges of upholding the Christian belief and managing the cultural beliefs they upheld before joining the church.  Christianity and way of dressing today has become worrisome, especially the females. They dress in such manner, all with an aim of looking tantalizing, sexy and attractive instead of dressing in a responsible way. They wear short clothes, bum short, short blouse, miniskirts/gown, cleavage shirts, sagging of trousers by boys and even girls are the major problems associated with indecent dresses today. As if this ugly act is not enough, some people also wear transparent clothes, thereby revealing their body anatomy which ought not to be seen in public. These dressing patterns are many with more still coming up due to the progressiveness of fashion.  

1.3       Purpose of the Study

This study examined Christianity and Culture: Implications on Dressing, specifically, it sought to include the concept of Christianity and culture, characteristics of Christianity and culture, challenges of Christianity and culture, measures to overcome these challenges and the implications of Christianity and Culture on Dressing.

1.4       Research Questions

1.      What is Christianity?

2.      What is culture?

3.      What are the characteristics of Christianity and culture?

4.      What are appropriate dressing codes?

5.      What are the implications of Christians and Culture on dressing?

1.5       Significance of the Study

The research study will be of immense benefit to church leaders and members of the church, various cultures and to researchers. The church leader will have a working knowledge to addressing the issues of dressing in the church. Members of the church will have a better understanding on how to dress properly and not to allow culture and the norms of life to influences them. Various cultures will rapidly learn how to behave and conduct their mode of dressing that will not affect the individuals and the people.  Researchers will also benefit from this study because it will serve as a resource material in developing further studies.

1.6       Research Procedure

The researcher employed library and field investigations.  Data was collected through questionnaire and oral interviews that were distributed to respondents in Assemblies of God Church, Edo Central District for the purpose of gathering information through prepared questions and examined for true representation. The research study was predominantly library, internet and field investigations. This research was conducted to achieve the goals and objective of this research study.

1.7       Delimitation of the Study

This study is limited in scope to Christianity and Culture: Implications on Dressing, A Case Study of Assemblies of God Church, Edo Central District which covered partly four Local Government Areas of Edo State. And they are Oredo, Egor Ovia South West and Ovia North East. The District have its headquarter in Benin City, with over 15,000 membership, 130 Pastors, 145 Branches, and 32 Sections.

1.8       Definition of Terms

Christianity : An Abrahamic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and various scholars who wrote the Christian Bible.

Culture: the acts, customs and habits that characterize a particular society of a group of persons or nation.

Implications: the action of a person or a state of being involved in something.

Dressing: A piece of clothing that cover someone’s’ body.

Code: A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

CHAPTER  TWO

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter review literature that are related to the research study...........

CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter captures the methodology and procedure applied to gather relevant information for this research study. It comprises of research design, population and sampling, research instrument, validity of the Instrument, administration of instrument and method of data collection and analysis......

 

CHAPTER FOUR

 

PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS

The focus of this chapter is to present the findings obtained from the data collected and to discuss the analysis made out of the research questions.......

 

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES

This chapter consists of summary, conclusion, recommendations and suggestions for further studies which is as follows:.…...

 

 

 

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