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Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State

Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State

Ilesanmi, Simeon Olusegun

Paperback

Series: Ohio Ris Africa, Book 66

Comparative ReligionReligion General General Political Science

ISBN10: 0896801942
ISBN13: 9780896801943
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: Nov 1 1996
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
In the case of Nigeria, scholarship on religious politics has not adequately taken into account the pluralistic context and the idealistic pretensions of the state that inhibit the possibility of forging an enduring civic amity among Nigeria's diverse groups. Ilesanmi proposes a new philosophy or model of religio-political interaction, which he calls dialogic politics. Dialogic politics celebrates pluralism and suggests that religious institutions he construed as mediating structures functioning as buffers between individual citizens in search of existential meaning and cultural identity and the impersonal state, which tends to gravitate toward instrumental objectives. Ilesanmi's study offers a fresh perspective on the complex relations between political attitudes and religious convictions.

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