Religious Fundamentalism: A Sociological Menace to Peace, Development and National Security in Nigeria
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2024-12-30
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Faculty of Humanities, Ignatius Ajuru Univeristy of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
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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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Ekere Journal of Religion (EJR), Deoartment of Rligious and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities Ignatius Ajuru Univeristy of Education, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.