The Akwa Ibom people being migrants have passed through challenging experiences in their sojourning, generally they tend to recognise that which is awesome and appealing, fearful and attractive and commanding of wonder, awe, and reverence. The exposure of traditional indigenous religion to western culture has given way to acculturation. Traditional religion of Akwa Ibom, never being a documented practice, means that authority of traditional religious sages has waned, group dynamics do not impose one religion over another on citizens.

The people believe in monotheism, their sense of worship is to one God. Typically, it is common belief that reality is not restricted to sense experience alone. The people are generally free to belong to any religion to which they share a common belief with its leader. Hence, many AkwaIbomites, from their days of migration, openly welcomed Christianity from its inception in Calabar.

They have used the platform of religion to ethnically close divides amongst them by ending forms of taboos that were against the interest of the people, such as human sacrifice.

As of now the major religions are Christianity, with many churches like the Roman Catholic Church, and Protestants being accepted. Pentecostalism has also penetrated many members of these orthodox churches as they seek deeper experiences.

Traditional religion places of worship has today become museum monuments as the lineage of leaders and worshippers have abandoned most of these institutions for want of successors. Most surviving traditional religion shrines are at their verge of going underground as people have moved and sometimes consider the shrines, its leaders and worshippers as derelicts.

Yet in some traditional functions, such as traditional marriages, some family meetings, and community functions libation is poured for the spirit of the ancestors. Also in public addresses, reference is sometimes made to ancestral spirits. These signify that with some people of Akwa Ibom there is still a form of somewhat less significant traditional pagan worship. However, individuals often regard participation in such gatherings as religiously optional and most times do not participate in such worship where it conflicts with their tenets.