... Religious pluralism and the Nigerian state. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BO... more ... Religious pluralism and the Nigerian state. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xxxi, 299 p. SUBJECT(S): Nigeria; Politics and government; Religion; 1960-;Religious pluralism; Religion and state. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
ABSTRACTThe editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a ... more ABSTRACTThe editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a recent incident at Hamline University that made national headlines. Last fall, Hamline University administrators refused to extend a contract to an adjunct professor of art history after a Muslim student accused her of Islamophobia for showing a 14th‐century image of Mohammad in an online class. The event provoked intense conversations about issues of academic freedom, religious diversity, the status of contingent faculty, and race. These essays bring together scholarly and personal reflections about the incident at Hamline and what it means for the pedagogy of religious studies.
... 7. John 0. Hunwick, "Introduction," in Religion and National Integr... more ... 7. John 0. Hunwick, "Introduction," in Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam,Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria, ed. John 0. Hunwick (Evanston, II.: Northwestern University Press, 1992), 7. 8. Ibid., xi. 9. Ibid., 6. 10. ...
International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1998
... Religious pluralism and the Nigerian state. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BO... more ... Religious pluralism and the Nigerian state. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xxxi, 299 p. SUBJECT(S): Nigeria; Politics and government; Religion; 1960-;Religious pluralism; Religion and state. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
Contemporary discourse on human rights in Africa constitutes an important and controversial aspec... more Contemporary discourse on human rights in Africa constitutes an important and controversial aspect of the general discourse on African society and culture. I begin by examining the idea of human rights as a moral category and discuss its pertinence to African cultural and political life. I then analyze and discuss the two dominant positions in the current debate, namely, the communitarian and the individualist theses. I argue that both positions are inadequate because they dissociate dimensions of life that need to be interpreted in their interplay. Drawing upon samples of traditional African religious and ethical traditions, I propose a personalist theory of human rights that affirms the intrinsic individuality and sociality of the human status.
... Religious pluralism and the Nigerian state. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BO... more ... Religious pluralism and the Nigerian state. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xxxi, 299 p. SUBJECT(S): Nigeria; Politics and government; Religion; 1960-;Religious pluralism; Religion and state. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
ABSTRACTThe editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a ... more ABSTRACTThe editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a recent incident at Hamline University that made national headlines. Last fall, Hamline University administrators refused to extend a contract to an adjunct professor of art history after a Muslim student accused her of Islamophobia for showing a 14th‐century image of Mohammad in an online class. The event provoked intense conversations about issues of academic freedom, religious diversity, the status of contingent faculty, and race. These essays bring together scholarly and personal reflections about the incident at Hamline and what it means for the pedagogy of religious studies.
... 7. John 0. Hunwick, "Introduction," in Religion and National Integr... more ... 7. John 0. Hunwick, "Introduction," in Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam,Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria, ed. John 0. Hunwick (Evanston, II.: Northwestern University Press, 1992), 7. 8. Ibid., xi. 9. Ibid., 6. 10. ...
International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1998
... Religious pluralism and the Nigerian state. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BO... more ... Religious pluralism and the Nigerian state. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xxxi, 299 p. SUBJECT(S): Nigeria; Politics and government; Religion; 1960-;Religious pluralism; Religion and state. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
Contemporary discourse on human rights in Africa constitutes an important and controversial aspec... more Contemporary discourse on human rights in Africa constitutes an important and controversial aspect of the general discourse on African society and culture. I begin by examining the idea of human rights as a moral category and discuss its pertinence to African cultural and political life. I then analyze and discuss the two dominant positions in the current debate, namely, the communitarian and the individualist theses. I argue that both positions are inadequate because they dissociate dimensions of life that need to be interpreted in their interplay. Drawing upon samples of traditional African religious and ethical traditions, I propose a personalist theory of human rights that affirms the intrinsic individuality and sociality of the human status.
Uploads