EKWE JONAL

The thrust of this study is to portray Igbo trado-medical architecture as a matrix for deliverance ministries.The study also aims at casting off the western subservience and recapturing the Igbo rich cultural heritage. For some decades now, a lot of people have been condemning the Igbo tradomedical healing and deliverance architecture without knowing its relevance in the contemporary society. While some are projecting it, some are of the opinion that, it is something that is in connection with fetish, idol and ancestor worship and has nothing to do with God in its entirety. The purpose of this work therefore, is to clarify this conception and to ascertain what this phenomenon is all about as regards the healing and deliverance ministry in Igbo land. The descriptive research survey design will be used for this study. The instrument for data collation will consist of primary and secondary sources. The outcome is that the indigenous practices of healing and deliverance are still useful despite its condemnations by some group of people in the contemporary society. From the above, it will be on record that the African healing and deliverance ministry has found its feet on orthodox institutionalized Christian churches. The work recommends that the practices are to be appreciated and be used by all and sundry as a tool for greater evangelism, thereby promoting a better and healthier society. This work therefore is an effort to redirect the mindset of people who think that the Igbo ritual practices in healing and deliverance should be relegated to the background because of the modern trend in the society. Therefore, it should serve as a blue print for Igbo trado- cultural religious renaissance.

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