Religious ideas and institutions : transitions to democracy in Africa / edited by Edmond J. Keller & Ruth Iyob.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keller, Edmond J. (Edmond Joseph), 1942-

Iyob, Ruth, 1957-

University of South Africa (UNISA).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--Africa.

Religion and politics.

Africa--Religion.

Africa.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xii, 180 pages : tables ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pretoria, South Africa : Unisa Press, [2012]

Summary:

Political and other social scientists address the emerging role of religious ideas and institutions in the process of Africa's political liberalization and democratization. They cover theoretical and empirical perspectives on religion and politics in Africa; Christianity and Islam in Nigeria; and Islam, the state, and politics in Libya, Morocco, and Algeria. Among specific topics are religious identity and civil conflict in Africa, liberal varieties of Islam in Africa and the struggle for tolerance and democracy, Nigerian women's responses to Shari'a, and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. The nine papers are from a May 2007 conference Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: 1. Religion, institutions and the transition to democracy in Africa / Edmond J. Keller and Ruth Iyob

Part 1: Theoretical and empirical perspectives on religion and politics in Africa

2. The state, religion and the challenge to state hegemony / Jeffrey Haynes

3. Religious identity and civil conflict in Africa / Marc Scarcelli

4. Beyond Islamists and Sufi brotherhoods : liberal varieties of Islam in Africa and the struggle for tolerance and democracy / Sheldon Gellar

Part II: Christianity and Islam in perspective: the case of Nigeria

5. Christianity, Islam and political culture: the case of Nigeria / Robert A. Dowd

6. The politics of gender: Nigerian women's responses to Shari'a / Hussainatu J. Abdullah

Part III: Islam, the state and politics in North Africa: Libya, Morocco and Algeria

7. Political Islam and the state in Africa: the case of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group / Hussein Solomon

8. Islam, the state and democracy in Algeria and Morocco / Mary-Jane Deeb

Conclusion: 9. Interrogating secularism in Africa: paradigmaticor heretical? / Ruth Iyob.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1868886166

OCLC:

793519906

Publisher Number:

99949948444