Religion and Peacebuilding in Nigeria

Kew, Darren; Kwaja, Chris M. A.

doi:10.1002/9781119424420.ch12

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“…Fast forward to 2022, Nigeria is the 4th country with the highest total number of Christians, only trailing the United States, Brazil and Mexico (World Population Review, 2022). All things considered, some commentators describe the country as the most religious nation in the world with Churches and Mosques teeming with worshippers on Sundays and Fridays (Kew and Kwaja, 2022).…”

Section: Religiosity In Nigeriamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While Islam spread across the North, Christianity was propagated from the southern coastal areas particularly via Badagry and Calabar (Abu, 2013). Roman Catholic orders including the Society of African Mission and Holy Ghost Fathers have been specially credited for proselytising and winning Christian converts in Nigeria (Okafor, 2005), but the evangelism of the Anglican, Baptist and Methodist missionaries is also worthy of mention (Kew and Kwaja, 2022). Fast forward to 2022, Nigeria is the 4th country with the highest total number of Christians, only trailing the United States, Brazil and Mexico (World Population Review, 2022).…”

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The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus

Onjewu,

Anosike,

Godwin

2023

IJEBR

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PurposeIncreasingly, there is scholarly recognition that individuals' faith constitutes a background factor much like other antecedents conditioning entrepreneurial inclination. Yet, there is room to expand knowledge on how faith interrelates with psychological and social determinants of entrepreneurship, especially in under-researched contexts such as Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachThis inquiry conceptualises associations between religiosity and (1) entrepreneurial self-efficacy, (2) entrepreneurial attitudes (3) and subjective norms as predictors of nascent entrepreneurship. For analysis, 1,259 observations of Nigerian students are assessed by structural equation modelling.FindingsThe path analysis showed that the religiosity–nascent entrepreneurship nexus is altogether mediated by entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial attitudes and subjective norms. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is found to have the greatest impact on nascent entrepreneurship, followed by subjective norms and then entrepreneurial attitudes.Originality/valueTheoretically, this study is one of the first to test all three dimensions of the theory of planned behaviour in the religiosity–nascent entrepreneurship nexus. It draws fresh attention to faith motivation and praxis, role-taking and attribution theory as explainers of the inherent correlations. Practically, the findings summon stakeholders to consider religious activity in the delivery of entrepreneurship programmes.

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Section: Religiosity In Nigeriamentioning

confidence: 99%