Browsing by Author "Olatayo, George Olayeye"

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    Development of New Theories and Expediency of Reviewing Academic Tradition in the Study of Religion in Nigerian Universities
    (HUMANUS DISCOURSE, 2024) Olatayo, George Olayeye
    For several decades now, it seems the study of religion and the evolution of new theories about the scientific study of religion in Nigerian tertiary institutions have been one of the major critical areas in which religious scholars have been seriously engaging in the academic discourse. In the recent milieu, scholars have been attempting to make the scientific studies of religious practices and traditions relevant and more fascinating through various academic lens of methodologies, approaches, and functional theories. This is to make the studies of religion multidisciplinary, multidimensional, and multifunctional in their approaches both in learning and practices. This, hitherto, would bring about empirical manifestations of practical knowledge of religious traditions and the scientific studies of religions through reliable data. Of course, structured activities in terms of accumulating knowledge and progressive critical dispassionate research in the scientific studies of religions, which are well disseminated through teaching, learning, and literature are what is taken to be the manifestations of reality of academic tradition in the study of religion in Nigerian Universities. It is observed that some religious scholars in Nigeria have different views, opinions, and standpoints, which do not consciously build on academic traditions and a well reviewed academic curriculum that is indigenous based on different approaches in the study of religions. In most cases, the viewpoint on religious issues by the scholars seems not to either be well known or practically engaged in thorough academic scrutinizing. However, this paper adopts a descriptive-analytical method and content analysis of historical research in this study area by explaining the current practices of academic culture and identifying the observed practices that do not engender robust academic tradition, discourse, and literature in the study of religion in Nigerian Universities. The paper proposes that there should be an attempt to promote interactions among Indigenous scholars with engaging academic works in the study of religion. This is not a view to advocating for ethnocentrism but organized efforts to domesticate indigenous knowledge with academic framework in the study of religion.
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    GOSPEL MUSIC, SPIRITUALITY AND THE PRAXIS OF MATERIALISM AMONG SOME CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN GOSPEL MUSICIANS
    (Izu: Journal of Critical Perspectives, 2024) Olatayo, George Olayeye
    This paper examines four things. First, it explores the historical origin, growth, and development of Christian gospel music and the spirituality of Christian churches. Second, it discusses how materialism lays the foundation for the quest for material possessions, which is the main target of some Nigerian gospel musicians. Third, the paper points out the extent to which some contemporary gospel musicians pursue material wealth and how this sycophantic mind-set has become one of the indices of the rapid change in terms of the lifestyle and the gospel music of some gospel singers. Fourth, it raises ethical concerns that arise from the materialistic culture of greed, which accounts for the loss of moral ethos in the Christian church communities and larger society. The research method adopted for this study is descriptive and analytical methods where spiritual behaviours and social relationships of gospel singers are subjected to evaluation. The paper, among other things, claims that gospel musicians are ministers of God who minister the Word of God to people within their calling areas and should maintain the sanctity of their Christian divine calls. The paper concludes that the unbridled quest for wealth in contemporary times is one of the significant causes of materialism and culture of cupidity among some Christian church gospel musicians and the larger society.
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    Mutual Tolerance, Ethics of Reconcilation and the Politics of Peaceful Co-existence
    (Cogito Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024-09) Olatayo, George Olayeye
    he paper interrogates the relevance of the principle of tolerance in the ethics of reconciliation and how the adoption of mutual tolerance argument can help to sustain peaceful coexistence in a pluralised multi - religious and complex political society. The claim that we live in a heterogeneous world with various ideologies, complex religious beliefs and cultural diversities is self-evident. Research has also shown that man is intrinsically wired to meaningfully survive and actualise potentials in the community of others as argued by Aristotle. Thus, there is a need for people with different interests to coexist and live in close proximity to one another despite the ir religion affiliation, political orientation and socio -c ultural differences that divide them. Meanwhile, clash of interests sometimes breeds division and differences which often results in conflicts among people. Essentially, the inevitability of conflic ts in the society necessitates the need for ethics of reconciliation. The paper argues that without mutual tolerance, reconciliation may be difficult if not impossible because complete reconciliation is often two -s ided. It further argues that peradventure reconciliation is possible, meaningful reconciliation that will lead to lasting peace will be impossible if mutual tolerance is not embraced. The paper concludes that if the principle of mutual tolerance is properly engaged, it has the moral capacity and t endency to mitigate challenges that bedevil reconciliation as well as moral issues that consistently stalled the creation of the atmosphere of peace and tranquillity across the globe .
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    Religious Fundamentalism: A Sociological Menace to Peace, Development and National Security in Nigeria
    (Faculty of Humanities, Ignatius Ajuru Univeristy of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 2024-12-30) Olatayo, George Olayeye
    The current security challenges confronting Nigerian societies have been blamed on the religious heels of fundamentalism, bad governance and its attendant social vices in the society. Religious fundamentalism permeates the entire spectrum of the social, economic, political and spiritual landscapes in Nigerian Statehood. Consequently, family lives, education, economics, belief systems, cultural values and social norms as well as political governance have suffered dramatically due to Nigeria’s pernicious security situation, corruption and bad governance, which is engendered by religious fundamentalism in many parts of the country. This paper examines many challenges that are confronting Nigeria's religiously pluralised society and the impacts of religious fundamentalism on the peace, development and national security of the citizens and the Nigerian State. The research adopts a triangulation of historical and descriptive analytical methods through which conceptual issues are objectively analysed and arguments are raised to establish the inferences that are argued for and against in the paper. Thus, the paper argues, among other things, that, under ‘visionary and inspired humanist leaders’, the Nigerian state would no longer be described as a security failed state but as a nation capable of providing enviable and better social welfare, economic needs, security and dignified existence for its numerous citizens.
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    The Humanities and Leadership in Nigeria
    (Faculty of Arts Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2014) Olatayo, George Olayeye