Abstract:
Religion and the law adjudicated by courts have a great bond that even before
the coming of philosophical doctrines of democracy people adhered to the
law of religion which also developed as their customs. In Uganda, there
several religious faiths which include Christianity, Islam and African
Tradition Religion as the common known religions. But several religions
have emerged by the introduction of the freedom of worship. In reference to
the late Kenyan theologian John S. Mbiti, he observed extensively in that
Africans are notoriously religious, in his book African Religions and
Philosophy (1969) which he wrote while still a lecturer at Makerere
University, he was against the western civilization tenets that African
Tradition religion was demoniac in nature and barbaric. he further noted that
traditional African religions deserve the same respect as other religions across
the world. He referred to the Bible, God is the creator of all things, therefore
meaning that God has revealed himself to all things. The civil courts have
without hesitation exercised their jurisdiction to protect the temporalities of
religious bodies and religion in genera
