Violence in Nigeria

Violence in Nigeria
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1998
Genre: 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.

How Violence Shapes Religion

How Violence Shapes Religion
Author: Ziya Meral
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: 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.

Religion and the Making of Nigeria

Religion and the Making of Nigeria
Author: Olufemi Vaughan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: 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.

Democratization and Islamic Law

Democratization and Islamic Law
Author: Johannes Harnischfeger
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3593382563

When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one-third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. This work argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multireligious country can have disastrous consequences

Under Caesar's Sword

Under Caesar's Sword
Author: Daniel Philpott
Publisher: Law and Christianity
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108425305

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa

The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa
Author: John F. McCauley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-05-03
Genre: 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.

Creed & Grievance

Creed & Grievance
Author: Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Publisher: Western Africa
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2018
Genre: 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.

Religion, Violence, and Local Power-Sharing in Nigeria

Religion, Violence, and Local Power-Sharing in Nigeria
Author: Laura Thaut Vinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: 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.

Rage and Carnage in the Name of God

Rage and Carnage in the Name of God
Author: Abiodun Alao
Publisher: Religious Cultures of African
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781478015536

Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in post-independence Nigeria, locating it in the forced coming together of disparate ethnic groups under colonial rule.

Boko Haram

Boko Haram
Author: Alexander Thurston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691197083

"Thurston has written the definitive history of Boko Haram. By weaving a complex tapestry of politics and religion, he explains the peculiarity and potency of one of the world's most lethal jihadist insurgencies. A violent and secretive sect that was impenetrable even to experts is now laid bare."--William McCants, author of The ISIS Apocalypse.e.