Pentecostal Republic
Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria
Throughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions. Tensions have only intensified since the restoration of democracy in 1999, with the divide between Christian south and Muslim north playing a central role in the country's electoral politics, as well as manifesting itself in the religious warfare waged by Boko Haram.Through the lens of Christian-Muslim struggles for supremacy, Ebenezer Obadare charts the turbulent course of democracy in the Nigerian Fourth Republic, exploring the key role religion has played in ordering society. He argues the rise of Pentecostalism is a force focused on appropriating state power, transfo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78699-240-6
- EAN: 9781786992406
- Produktnummer: 29014047
- Verlag: Zed Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 586 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Ebenezer Obadare is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas and Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. He is co-editor of the Journal of Modern African Studies. He is also the author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria (2016), editor of The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa (2014), and co-editor of Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century (2014).
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