Pentecostal Presidency? The Lagos-Ibadan ‘Theocratic Class’ &amp; the Muslim ‘Other’

Obadare, Ebenezer

doi:10.1080/03056240601119083

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“…Shortly after Obasanjo assumed power, the northern Muslim elite suspected attempts to Christianise the presidency by his Christian aides and certain groups close to him. This group of people, dubbed the 'Theocratic Class' by Ebenezer Obadare (2006), was driven by the increasingly influential Pentecostal Church. They gave President Obasanjo the image of a 'born-again' president and defined him as 'a personal embodiment of divine response to their prayers and prophecies for the nation' (Obadare 2006, p. 670).…”

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Politics and the Pulpit: The Rise and Decline of Religion in Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Elections

Onapajo

2016

JAE

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Numerous reports show that Nigeria is one of the most religious countries in the world. Thus, it is not surprising that religion features prominently in the country's elections. The 2015 general election marks another signpost in the interconnection between religion and elections in Nigeria, although with a different pattern. Using an analysis of the 2015 presidential elections, this paper argues that, although religion appeared to play a central role in the pre-election period, it was less significant in the actual voting decision of the electorate on election day. Rather, other factors, especially candidates' profiles and performance records, took precedence over religious and ethnic considerations. This essay concludes that the voting pattern possibly reveals an increasingly sophisticated electorate and a consolidating democracy in Nigeria.

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Section: Religion Party Politics and Elections In Nigeriamentioning

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Politics and the Pulpit: The Rise and Decline of Religion in Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Elections

Onapajo

2016

JAE

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“…One is their strong emphasis on personal responsibility and salvation and on the collective relevance of personal moral reform (Kresse 2003;Meyer 2004;Larkin and Meyer 2006;Schulz 2008;Masquelier 2009). Also characteristic of current religious renewal movements are the multiple forms of interaction, collaboration, and sometimes cooptation that supporters of religious renewal establish with the institutions and representatives of the state (e.g., Otayek 1993;Brenner 1993;Obadare 2006;Bornstein 2005;Bompani and Frahm-Arp 2010;Schulz 2012a). Third, most present-day Christian and Muslim renewal trends capitalize substantially on the financial and infrastructural support of organizations that operate at a transnational level (e.g., Marshall-Fratani 1999;Hearn 2002;Seesemann 2002Seesemann , 2007Kaag 2007;Dilger 2009;Stambach 2010).…”

Section: Religious Revival and The Remaking Of The Public Spherementioning

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Politics of Religious Schooling: Christian and Muslim Engagements with Education in Africa

Dilger¹,

Schulz²

2013

J Religion Afr

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In recent decades, religiously motivated schools have gained a new social and political presence and significance in many African countries. Although religious networks and organizations—Christian as well as Muslim—have played a central role in providing education in colonial and postcolonial settings, liberalization and privatization measures since the 1980s have opened up new opportunities for religious engagement at all educational levels. The contributions to this issue explore the implications of these recent transformations on Christian and Muslim investments in the educational domain. To do so, they examine these implications in view of reconfigurations of national and regional educational fields under the influence of colonial and postcolonial administrations. Furthermore, they address the multiple, often-contested meanings, practices, and institutional setups that have shaped and been constituted by, the field of ‘religious schooling’ in the context of both neoliberal reform measures and transnational religious renewal trends. Finally, they illustrate the need to adopt an increasingly comparative perspective in the analysis of religious education, and to understand how (internally differentiated) instances of Christian and Muslim education have developed historically in relation to each other.

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“…Blatant socioeconomic inequality, endemic corruption, and administrative gerrymandering have further amplified ethnic and religious antagonisms (Alapiki 2005; Quinn and Quinn 2003; Rasmussen 1993). As a result, religion has remained a major political force and dominant idiom of cultural discourse in Nigeria up to this day (Obadare 2006).…”

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History, Community Milieu, and Christian‐Muslim Differentials in Contraceptive Use in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Agadjanian

Yabiku

Fawcett

2009

Scientific Study of Religion

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In the globalization discourse, Christianity and Islam are often construed as representing two traditions that are conflicted and incompatible. This study engages the "clash of civilizations" discourse by examining MuslimChristian differentials in the use of modern contraception in Nigeria, where Christians have a much higher contraceptive prevalence, and Tanzania, where Muslims are somewhat more likely to use contraception. Employing data from six nationally representative surveys conducted in the two countries between 1990 and 2004 and multilevel logistic regression, we find that the effects of religion remain strong but operate largely through the community religious milieu. Contraceptive use tends to be highest in religiously mixed areas, but the "optimal" religious makeup differs between the two nations, reflecting the historically shaped configurations of their religious expressions and politics.Fueled by politics, the issue of the "civilizational" opposition of Christianity and Islam frequently, even if not always explicitly, makes its way into current globalization discourse. Drawing upon various dimensions and aspects of Christianity's and Islam's historical patrimony and present-day realities, elaborate and forceful arguments are made that reify a gulf dividing the two "civilizations" and, on the contrary, reduce the differences between Christian and Muslim heritages and politicocultural expressions to mere miscommunication or opportunistic manipulations (e.g.One of the most commonly used yardsticks to assess the differences between the Christian and Muslim worlds is their receptivity to cultural and technological changes. It is often presumed that the former possesses better aptitude and flexibility to embrace and internalize innovations than the latter. These and similar assumptions and assessments, however, seldom rest on a thorough examination of empirical data-mainly because appropriate and well-measured indicators of such innovations are rare. In this study, we look at contraceptive use in the context of high fertility-a sort of novel cultural technology that can be easily measured without bias. We focus on what is often labeled "modern" contraceptives-hormonal or barrier methods that are scientifically developed and industrially produced, whose invention and spread are historically recent and whose practical purposes and cultural load are often very different from "traditional" methods of birth control. Importantly, in the settings that we examine here contraceptives are usually available free of charge or are heavily subsidized, which effectively eliminates the pecuniary barriers that often hinder the spread of other novel technologies.The last half-century has witnessed a global contraceptive revolution. This revolution, however, has not impacted the world evenly. sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the last "family Acknowledgments: The authors are thankful to Cecilia Menjívar, S. Philip Morgan, and Jenny Trinitapoli for useful comments and suggestions. Correspondence should be addressed to Victo...

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Pentecostal Presidency? The Lagos-Ibadan ‘Theocratic Class’ & the Muslim ‘Other’

Cited by 55 publications

References 12 publications

Politics and the Pulpit: The Rise and Decline of Religion in Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Elections

Politics and the Pulpit: The Rise and Decline of Religion in Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Elections

Politics of Religious Schooling: Christian and Muslim Engagements with Education in Africa

History, Community Milieu, and Christian‐Muslim Differentials in Contraceptive Use in Sub‐Saharan Africa

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