Dancing to the Post-Modern Tune: The Future of the Sacrament of Reconciliation Among the Igbo People

Religions and Discourse explores religious language in the major world faiths from various viewpoints, including semiotics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, and reflects on how it is situated within wider intellectual and cultural contexts. In particular a key issue is the role of figurative speech. Many fascinating metaphors originate in religion e.g. revelation as a ’garment’, apostasy as ’adultery’, loving kindness as the ’circumcision of the heart’.

Tobias Onyedikachukwu Okoro was educated at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he received his doctorate in pastoral theology. Currently, he is serving as the parish priest of St Bride’s Parish, Pitlochry, in the diocese of Dunkeld, Scotland.