Communication Symbols in Nigeria Culture and Religions

Abstract

 This paper considered communication symbols from religious, sociology and anthropology perspective. Symbol is an instrument of learning, the image of a representable object. It is conventional and cultural conditioning. The history of symbolism shows that everything can assume symbolic significance. Scholars in many fields writes about symbolism from their discipline. In ancient time Greek and Latin words related to symbol had a variety of meaning, arranged round the notion of matching entities. A symbol is an instrument of expression and in early Christianity it was associated with set of beliefs. The method adopted in this paper is critical analysis.