Talk:Religion in Kenya/Archive 1

Archive 1

Wakorino

I wonder why this page doesn't mention de Wakorino. There should be a wikipedia article on the Wakorino as they are a very visible religious group in Kenia. The Wakorino men (which I presume is a transformation in KiSwahili of the word 'Corinthians') are recognized by their clean white headscarf worn the same way as Sikh, they also grow their beards. Women wear a white cloth over their upper bodies and long skirts. By outsiders they may be recoginzed as Muslims but their religion resembles more Christianity than Islam. There is not much information to find about them online or wherever, but they are a feasable group in Kenya and known for their musical prodcution. They are pious and succesful in society although subject to discrimination because of their dress code. I wonder if they exist in Tanzania too. I do not know where they come from, how they came to be, etc. All information on this religion would be great to feature here or in a seperate wiki page. Anybody any info? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.193.88.21 (talk) 13:49, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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This page does need a serious revision when the first and most prominent pictures is a mosque and over 75% of the population is Christian...the people who force their hatred of Christianity on the rest of us like this must have been listening to Barry Hussein for too long (someone who seems to think that another 80% Christian country is actually "one of the largest Muslim nations in the world"). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.109.151.197 (talk) 13:09, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

This page needs a serious revision. Please add native religions, as well as eastern religions. Comparison would be nice as well, including percentages. Please cite your work.

thanks!

In the main page(Kenya) it states that Roman Catholics constitute 33 percent Kenya, yet this page it says they are 28 percent. What is the deal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.30.99.26 (talk) 06:46, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Until more information is present, is it possible to even out the descriptions a bit? Perhaps a template of important points to discuss per religion? The reason I ask is that the Christian religions are clumped into one paragraph, with no mention of their standing vs. the government, place in the legal system, nor charitable works in Kenya. Islam gets three paragraphs which discuss the first two issues and goes on to cite their complaints. Baha'i is singled out for charitable works in the 90's, without any real reference to anything else, and Hinduism is "just there".

Two more issues: some religions are numbered by percentage, some by individual body-count. With no reference to the standing census when these percentages and counts were taken, it is difficult to compare them. The numbers for Islam are claimed here to be 7% (cited from the CIA World Factbook without year) and the separate Islam In Kenya article claims 25% without a cite, which seems to exceed even this article's "estimates...vary widly".

Finally, the statement "The religions subsiding in Kenya do not display the distinctions between the 42 cultures. They mainly display the traditions of the larger "umbrella" cultures." seems to be something that belongs in the missing introduction, rather than appended to the Islam section, unless it refers specifically to the Islamic religion"s"?

I make no claim to be an expert in the subject, but from a user's point of view, this article seems to be bent to the point of uselessness.

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiorbinist (talk • contribs) 14:56, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

It says Christianity was introduced by the Portuguese in the 15th century but neighbouring ethiopia was officially orthodox in the 4th century. They must mean Roman Catholicism, I'll change it.31.186.228.96 (talk) 16:12, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

History of orthodox Christianity in kenya

Hi Why delete my mention of orthodox Christianity in northeast africa in the 4th century? How is it off topic in an article about Christianity in Kenya?31.186.228.60 (talk) 17:15, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi. How the Ethiopian Orthodox faith evolved (which was not as suggested, btw) has absolutely nothing to do with Kenya, let alone the Axumite Empire. The Christians in Kenya are mainly Protestant and Roman Catholic, with few if any Ethiopian Orthodox adherents. Christianity as a whole was actually introduced fairly recently to the territory by colonialists. Kenya is also not in Northeast Africa; it is in the African Great Lakes to the south. Regards, Middayexpress (talk) 17:34, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not talking about the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, I'm talking about early Christianity. Part of Ethiopia was officially a Christian Kingdom in the 4th c. So the neighbouring region called kenya would obviously have it's followers. The article implies christians didn't exist there until the 15th c. Like Africans can't walk & talk. This is wrong so I'll change it back. Please don't use Wikipedia to try and remove over a thousand years of traditional/orthodox Christianity in kenya from history.86.168.238.55 (talk) 19:44, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

It's not obvious at all since Kenya's Bantu/Nilotic majority have nothing to do with the Afro-Asiatic Aksumite Kingdom in the Horn region to the north (not the African Great Lakes region). Aksum was also adjacent to the Gibe region kingdoms like the Kingdom of Jimma (which were also Afro-Asiatic), not any Bantu/Nilotic polities. Middayexpress (talk) 15:10, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Seems to be a concerted effort to remove Christian history in kenya prior to the catholic invasion in the 15th c.86.168.238.55 (talk) 21:08, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Provide a source or it's original research. AcidSnow (talk) 03:09, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

It's more like fantasy. Something tells me he/she also isn't Kenyan. Middayexpress (talk) 15:10, 1 June 2014 (UTC)