Contextualizing Africans and Globalization

Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents
Herausgeber: Aderibigbe, Ibigbolade S.; Akande, Lydia Bosede; Omotoye, Rotimi Williams

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights the significance and consequences of globalization in the sociopolitical and religious experience with African worldviews, both nationally and throughout its diaspora. Through a multi- and interdisciplinary discourse, the diversity of opinions captures the complexity and plurality of global dynamics on African globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781498533171
• ISBN-10: 1498533175
• Artikelnr.: 45797781

Autorenporträt

Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe is associate professor of religion and African studies at the University of Georgia. Rotimi Williams Omotoye is professor of church history at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria. Lydia Bosede Akande is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religions at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Aderibigbe Ibigbolade Simon, Omotoye Williams Rotimi and
Akande Lydia Bosede
Chapter One: Globalization and Entrepreneurial Development in Nigeria: The
Challenges and the Opportunities, Olatunji Abdulganiy, Yinusa Muhammed A.,
and Raji Abdulateef
Chapter Two: Globalization, Family System, and Challenges of
Socio-Political Stability in Africa, Yusuf Noah, Aliyu Taofeek K. and Issah
Moshood
Chapter Three: The African Returnees from Brazil and the Politics of
Post-Slavery Migration, Ajayi Tayo Julius
Chapter Four: The Dynamics of Revenue and Relations: Contents and
Discontents in Historic African Diaspora Experiences in Ghana, NtiKwaku
Chapter Five: The Nemesis of Individualistic Ontology of Globalization to
the Practice of Liberal Democracy in the Post-Colonial Africa, Chimakonam
Jonathan Okeke and Agbo Joseph Nnaemeka
Chapter Six: The Seventh Century African Slaves and Descendants Identity
Empowerment through Religious Rituals: The Americas Experience, Aderibigbe
Ibigbolade Simon
Chapter Seven: The Dynamics and Challenges of Social Networks on the Moral
and Religious Development of Nigerian Youth, AdesinaJulius
Chapter Eight: The Role of Religion, Ethics, Proverbs, and Poetry in
Shaping Lives in Africa: The Journey So Far, Dopamu Abiola Theresa
Chapter Nine: African Traditional Medicine and Globalization: The Nigerian
Experience, Shishima Sarwuan Daniel
Chapter Ten: The Use of African Traditional Medicine, Western Medicine, and
Christian Faith Healing in Yorùbáland, Southwestern, Nigeria, Omotoye
Williams Rotimi
Chapter Eleven:The Practice of African Religion, Islam, and Christianity in
a Globalized Nigerian Society: Points of Cordiality, Akande Lydia Bosede
Chapter Twelve: Interrogating the Islamic Approach to Family and Societal
Problems in Contemporary Nigeria, Hassan-Bello Bolade
Chapter Thirteen: Domestic Violence in the Contemporary Muslim Community of
Ilorin, Nigeria: The Islamic Perspective, Hussain-Abubakar Sherifat
Chapter Fourteen: Biblical and Judicial Laws: The Search for Marital and
Societal Stability in Nigeria, Opadere Olaolu S. and Akande Lydia Bosede