ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the use of African Traditional Religion (ATR) in the study of the New Testament (NT) in Africa. Literary works produced and demonstrating the use of African Traditional Religion in the study of the New Testament are therefore in different languages. Often Africa is divided into Anglophone, Lusophone, and Francophone countries. African scholars have been involved in what is called socially engaged biblical scholarship, 'engaged hermeneutics' to quote the words of J. S. Ukpong. In interpreting the Bible, African scholars have taken their context seriously: the African religious and cultural context. The use of ATR in NT study can best be described as revolutionary. It is revolutionary because African biblical scholars have realized that the missionary interpretation of the Bible that condemned African religion was culturally influenced. As J. N. Amanze says, in the teaching of the missionaries, for one to be a good Christian one was supposed to embrace Western culture.
