Author : Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Publisher : Western Africa
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847011063
Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threatens the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.
Author : Olufemi Vaughan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0822373874
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.
Author : Rotgak I. Gofwen
Publisher :
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9789783607453
Author : John F. McCauley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107175011
The book is aimed at students and scholars of conflict, Africa, ethnic politics, and religion. It may also appeal to religious and political leaders. It proposes a new perspective on how ethnicity and religion shape political outcomes and violence in Africa, adding psychological elements to standard political science arguments.
Author : Rotimi T. Suberu
Publisher : 成甲書房
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781929223282
FOREWORD by Larry Diamond
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580460521
A comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution. Violence in Nigeria is the most comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution. After an analysis of the links between religionand politics, the book elaborates on all the major cases of violence in the 1980s and 90s, including the Maitatsine, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, and Katsina riots. Zones of religious tensions are identified, as well as general characteristics of violence in Nigeria; and issues in inter and intra-religious relations, relious organizations, and the states, and the main actors in the conflicts are explored in great detail. A product of extensive primary research, Violence in Nigeria makes a contribution to contemporary social and political history that no previous study has attempted, and it is written to appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books dealing with the history of Nigeria, its people, their religion and politics.
Author : John N. Paden
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0520337123
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Author : Laura Thaut Vinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316844722
Why does religion become a fault line of communal violence in some pluralistic countries and not others? Under what conditions will religious identity - as opposed to other salient ethnic cleavages - become the spark that ignites communal violence? Contemporary world politics since 9/11 is increasingly marked by intra-state communal clashes in which religious identity is the main fault line. Yet, violence erupts only in some religiously pluralistic countries, and only in some parts of those countries. This study argues that prominent theories in the study of civil conflict cannot adequately account for the variation in subnational identity-based violence. Examining this variation in the context of Nigeria's pluralistic north-central region, this book finds support for a new theory of power-sharing. It finds that communities are less likely to fall prey to a divisive narrative of religious difference where local leaders informally agreed to abide by an inclusive, local government power-sharing arrangement.
Author : Sunday Bobai Agang
Publisher : Langham Monographs
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1907713158
This publication seeks to challenge established thinking about the causes of violence in Northern Nigeria. It explores immediate and long-term effects of that violence through reflection, study, and survey of previous research. The fundamental argument within is that ethnic, political and religious violence has affected Christian perspectives and core values and thus has hampered efforts towards just peacemaking.
Author : Ziya Meral
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108429009
Religion and violence are intrinsic to the human story. By tracing their roots in human experience, Meral reveals that it is violence that shapes religion.
