African Traditional Religion: Reclaiming the Sustainable Anthropocenes

Abstract

       This paper explores the negative impacts of the Anthropocene on the environment. It seeks advocacy for marginalized religions and spiritualities that hold pro-environmental knowledge. This paper argues as positive environmental Anthropocene Based on some aspects of the African Traditional Religion. The authors criticize imperialism and Christianity for suppressing and displacing African Traditional religions by failing to identify their positive qualities and leveraging on them. These colonial tendencies argued as pro-capitalist that have little regard for the environment as long as the colonial master’s bottom line, guided by the ethos of “dominance for profit,” is achieved. The theoretical framework draws on the perspective of decoloniality and views imperialism and its relics as a destructive Anthropocene for the environment. This paper, therefore, concludes that preserving what is left of marginalized religions, including the African Traditional Religion, would result in a more positive Anthropocene for the environment.