How God became a Nigerian: Religious impulse and the unfolding of a nation

Adogame, Afe

doi:10.1080/02589001.2010.512742

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“…Historically, the Nigerian religious landscape, representing West Africa, has metamorphosed from the debris of beliefs/practices in the pre-colonial era into a multiplicity of religious traditions (Adogame 2010;Adogame et al 2012;Heuser 2016;Magezi and Magezi 2017). This multitude of religiosities includes the indigenous religions (embodying shrines) and the Abrahamic religions, i.e., various strands of Christianity and Islam (Kangwa 2016).…”

Section: The Gospel Of Prosperitymentioning

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Where Is the Money? The Intersectionality of the Spirit World and the Acquisition of Wealth

Lazarus

2019

Religions

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This article is a theoretical treatment of the ways in which local worldviews on wealth acquisition give rise to contemporary manifestations of spirituality in cyberspace. It unpacks spiritual (occult) economies and wealth generation through a historical perspective. The article ‘devil advocates’ the ‘sainthood’ of claimed law-abiding citizens, by highlighting that the line dividing them and the Nigerian cybercriminals (Yahoo-Boys) is blurred with regards to the use of magical means for material ends. By doing so, the article also illustrates that the intersectionality of the spirit world and the acquisition of wealth (crime or otherwise) is connected with local epistemologies and worldviews, and its contemporaneity has social security benefits. Therefore, the view that the contemporary manifestations of spirituality in cyberspace signify a ‘new-danger’ and an ever-increasing outrage in Nigerian society is misplaced. I conclude that if people believe all aspects of life are reflective of the spiritual world and determined by it, the spiritual realm, by implication, is the base of society, upon which sits the superstructure comprised of all aspects of life, especially wealth. Inferentially, this conceptual position that the spirit world is the base of society is an inversion of Orthodox Marxist’s theory of economic determinism.

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Section: The Gospel Of Prosperitymentioning

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Where Is the Money? The Intersectionality of the Spirit World and the Acquisition of Wealth

Lazarus

2019

Religions

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“…Other indicators of socio-economic and political development they engage in the areas of microfinance, youth mobility and women empowerment, democratic politics, conflict management and service delivery sometimes surpassing the perceptibly doyen of development, Catholicism (cf. for instance Adogame 2007bAdogame , 2008aAdogame , 2010Adogame , 2012Adogame , 2013aAdogame , 2014Bompani 2010;Carpenter 2003;Englund 2011;Kalu 2008;Marshall 2009;Maxwell 2006;Ranger 2008).…”

Section: Gauging Human Development: An Enigma?mentioning

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African Christianities and the politics of development from below

Adogame¹

2016

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Religion and development are two ambiguous phenomena, yet we can map their creative interaction and intricate interconnectedness. In public discourse, ideas about development generally undermine the complex role of religion, or it is assumed that religion would be relegated to a matter of private belief in Africa, as secular states burgeoned, or even saw religion as an obstacle to development. Development was largely conceived of primarily in economic terms or as economic development. In contemporary era, the concept of human development has come into vogue, accentuating aspects of people’s lives that go beyond the economic dimension. There is no gainsaying in the fact that religion has been a dynamic entity and remains a growing force in public life in Africa. This article critiques vague definitions of religion and development and contends that human development should be understood as including the religious and spiritual dimension of life. Drawing upon concrete examples from my religious ethnography, the article seeks to explore the ambivalent role of religion in Africa’s development, and Africa’s development within the purview of the everyday lived religious and spiritual dimensions of life.

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“…This breaking away and formation of indigenous churches' event marked the emergence of indigenous Christian churches in Nigeria. This breaks out introduced the beginning of wave of indigenous Christianization in Nigeria with the concomitant proliferation of churches in the country today (Fafunwa, 1968;Sodiq, 2009;Adogame, 2010). Obadare, (2006) averred that comparatively, while Christianity's evangelization had a smooth landing in the South, it was full of upheavals in the North with somewhat rough terrain for some obvious reasons.…”

Section: Origin Of Christianity In Nigeriamentioning

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Religion in Nigerian Political Space: Implication for Sustainable National Development

Ntamu¹,

Abia²,

Edinyang³

et al. 2014

IJARBSS

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Nigerian politics has been replete with lots of anomalies and upheavals because the country leaders past and present have dragged religion and ethnicity into politics in their quests for leadership in the country. It's a known fact that since independence, more than 2/3rd of the country's independence has been spent by military junta. It is heartwarming to also note that within these periods of military and civilian rule, most of the military heads of states are from the north and most of them are Muslims. But it is disheartening to also know that since the return of Nigeria to democratic rule in 1999, power has shifted from the southern bloc to the north and back to the south, but the recent activities of politician by employing religious violence into politics thereby causing all sorts of mayhem and violence to satisfy their selfish sinterests leave much to be desired. It has been discovered that the recent Boko Haram insurgence in the country that has claimed more than 20,000 lives of innocent citizens and the state agencies are politically motivated, if this is true then, how can these religious intolerance perpetrated and transposed into politics lead to a sustainable national development in Nigeria? This research adopted literature review and found out that both Christianity and Islam have a stint in Nigeria politics and so many people have dragged religion into politics and are also using religion as a tool for achieving political powers by using it to cause violence and destruction of properties in the country. The paper therefore recommends that religious leaders and

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How God became a Nigerian: Religious impulse and the unfolding of a nation

Cited by 33 publications

References 4 publications

Where Is the Money? The Intersectionality of the Spirit World and the Acquisition of Wealth

Where Is the Money? The Intersectionality of the Spirit World and the Acquisition of Wealth

African Christianities and the politics of development from below

Religion in Nigerian Political Space: Implication for Sustainable National Development

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