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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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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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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Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa: Remaking the City 9781350152120, 9781350152144, 9781350152137

How does development intersect with religious urbanization to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this ques

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Agriculture in the Age of Fascism: Religious and Secular Iconographies (Rural History in Europe) 9782503552484, 250355248X

The agrarian policies of fascism have never before been studied from a comparative perspective. This volume offers an up

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Violence and Religious Change in the Pacific Islands (Elements in Religion and Violence) 9781009091336, 9781009094047, 1009094041

This Element considers patterns of violent behaviour among the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands while their vast regio

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