THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN NIGERIAN POLITICS AND ITS SUSTAINABILITY FOR POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT Oluwaseun Olawale AFOLABI‚ PhD (in view) (Ibadan) Institut Français de Recherche en Afique (IFRA) - Nigeria Research Fellow‚ Institute of African Studies‚ University of Ibadan‚ Nigeria. Abstract Nigeria has a pluralistic State has taken religion to a position of importance in every facet of her politics. The nation is the most populous country in West Africa vest with religious diversities: Christianity
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is distinctive about the relationship between religion and politics in the modern period? “I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the Business of Civil government from that of religion.” As John Locke makes evident in his Letter Concerning Toleration‚ it is most important and fundamentally essential to define the limits of both religion and politics – their proper places in civil society. Only with government-sponsored toleration is religion allowed to prosper in the
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dispute‚ that is persistent‚ is the significant impact of religion on contemporary politics and its perpetual distinction between the positive and negative influences that is associated with the effect. Religion has consistently been a resilient drive of change‚ development and settlement. Religion has been the core of several systems of human affairs that co-exist today including economics‚ welfare‚ law‚ philosophy‚ art and most importantly‚ politics.[1] However‚ according to historian Farhang Mehr‚ "
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rights and democracy IV. Why is there a need for separation between religious authorities and governments? a.The role of religious institutions b.Achievements made by states that are free of the oppression of religions and dangers related to the participation of religions to the political debate. INTRODUCTION: `This project is going to analyze the curse represented by a coalition between religious authorities and governments‚ and why this reality
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was the relationship between religion and Athletics in Ancient Greece? On balance‚ were the Ancient Games vastly different from modern olympics? How did greek attitudes towards sports differ from present day attitudes? What does the role of games in Ancient Greece suggest about the significance of sports in any society? All the answers to these questions can be found in the informational noval “Organized Greek Games” written by William J. Baker. So‚ what was the relationship between religion and Athletics
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Power and Authority as Viewed by Hobbes and Machiavelli Many medieval political thinkers observed that power and authority came first from God and then from a social mandate. In Leviathan‚ Thomas Hobbes proposes that power comes from the social mandate first. (Leviathan‚ Bk. I‚ Ch. 18‚ pp.230) He makes this assertion on the basis that it is within the human nature to secure its life through banding together with others to form a community. Each community‚ then‚ is held together by a common desire
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The Role of Religion om American Politics As the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution stipulates‚ ”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. This regulation represents one of the most important principles upon which the American democracy is built: the separation of church and state. Rhys H. Williams and N. J. Demerath III‚ the authors of the article ”Religion and Political Process in an American City”‚ however‚ raise the question
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Freud’s view of religion Sigmund Freud grew up in a Catholic town in Moravia‚ where he was one of a very small number of Jew’s. He claimed to have grown up without any belief in God‚ and never to have felt the need for it. Freud worked from the presupposition that the origin of religion is psychological‚ he assumed from the start that religious belief; religious experience and religious impulses come from within the mind and not from any external supernatural being. In Freud’s view‚ people
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What is Freud’s view on religion? Sigmund Freud was an Austrian psychologist‚ born May 1953 and died September 1939 aged 83. He had a very Jewish upbringing‚ yet considered himself to be an atheist‚ and his later works showed that he considered religion to be a type of neurosis. At various points in his work‚ Freud suggests that religion is an attempt to subdue or control what is known as the Oedipus complex; a father-son mental sexual competition over the mother. This suggests that the son feels
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Functionalist View of Religion First Last name Bluegrass Community Technical College There are several key elements that are found in every society. These elements are called cultural universals. One of these cultural universals is religion. From the earliest known societies to our every day modern lives religion has performed many vital functions. To explore these necessary duties of religion we must first understand the definition of religion. Many describe religion as a feeling
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