| Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State Contributor(s): Ilesanmi, Simeon Olusegun (Author), Ilesanmi, Simeon O. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0896801942 ISBN-13: 9780896801943 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $36.58 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Political Science | World - General - Religion | Religion, Politics & State |
| Dewey: 291.172 |
| LCCN: 96-33643 |
| Series: Monographs in International Studies. Africa Series |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.5" W x 8.43" (0.86 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |