Religion and Political Crimes in Nigeria: the Question of Virtues

dc.contributor.author	Dairo, Afolorunso
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-21T13:15:35Z
dc.date.available	2022-06-21T13:15:35Z
dc.date.issued	2006
dc.description.abstract	Politics is now taken as the accumulation, organization and utilization of power and money in a society. • But in a religious pluralistic nation as Nigeria, where each religion claims to uphold certain virtues and all political office holders claim adherences to one religion or the other, should political crimes be the order of the day? The problem is that, when religious belief are detached from both the historical context and the circumstances in which they are held and expressed, any interpretation of them is likely to be highly distorted. This work examines how religion affects either negatively or positively political ideology in Nigeria. There is no religion without its virtues but how are these virtues translated into behavioral patterns in Nigerian politics? Virtues in Nigerian politics seem belated. Hence it is discovered in this work that this criminal state of affairs was made possible because of the attitude and activities of some religious leaders, which we consider to be collusive and permissive.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3339
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	IJAGUN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES	en_US
dc.title	Religion and Political Crimes in Nigeria: the Question of Virtues	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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