Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies 1580460186, 9781580460187, 9780585235400

Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria 9781478022770

Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in post-independence Nigeria, locating it in the

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Secular War : Myths of Religion, Politics and Violence 9781780765358, 9780857727497

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Secular War: Myths of Religion, Politics and Violence 9780755619962, 9781780765358

How have long-standing and unconscious secular assumptions about religion shaped the post-9/11 climate and its wars? Sta

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Religious NGOs in International Relations: The construction of ‘the religious’ and ‘the secular’ 9781138856356, 9781315713786

Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discours

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Myth of Religious Violence - Secular Ideology and Roots of Modern Conflict 9780195385045, 2008053815

The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societ

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The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions 9780300213911

A thought-provoking reflection on why secular national liberation movements are so often challenged by militant religiou

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The Politics of Religious Literacy: Education and Emotion in a Secular Age (Political and Public Theologies, 2) 9004512934, 9789004512931

Religious Literacy has become a popular concept for navigating religious diversity in public life. Spanning classrooms t

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Becoming Religious in a Secular Age 9780520964648

Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the com

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Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis 9780520921726

With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship o

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Elections and Electoral Violence in Nigeria 9811646511, 9789811646515

This book interrogates the nature of elections and election violence in the African countries. It traces the causes of t

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