Religion, occult and youth conflict in the Niger Delta of Nigeria / Edlyne E. Anugwom.

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Anugwom, Edlyne Eze, 1969- [author.]

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TextPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017.; [Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective; Bamenda [Cameroon] : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 200 pages) :) : color illustration, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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995676454X
9789956764549

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

966.9 23

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DT515.45.E3 A587 2017

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Contents:

Foreword / by Mwenda Ntarangwi -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Niger Delta of Nigeria : context and location -- 3. Perception of marginalization as crucial plank of the Niger Delta struggle -- 4. What the theories tell us -- 5. Debate with religion : the religious cocktail of occult, witchcraft and sorcery -- 6. Occult manifestations in the Niger Delta -- 7. Marginalization and the reinvention of the occult -- 8. Making sense of it all -- 9. Some encouraging conclusions.

Summary: The book examines the nexus between youth conflict and the occult drawing its insights from the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria. It sees the occult represented by the Egbesu deity in this conflict as a form of religious belief imbued in this case with the powers of good. Thus, the religious occult is regenerated and re-energised as an idiom of justice and fairness within the Nigerian state by militant youth fighting the forces of the Nigerian state. Ingeniously, the young men simply dug into the cultural repertoire of the people for a hitherto popular expression of justice and perceived source of potency which they felt would not only provide spiritual protection but also pander to the popular imagination of justice. Even against the background prevalent Christianity, the Egbesu does not generate tension in beliefs but responds to the critical exigency of the immediate socio-political milieu of the people.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200).

The book examines the nexus between youth conflict and the occult drawing its insights from the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria. It sees the occult represented by the Egbesu deity in this conflict as a form of religious belief imbued in this case with the powers of good. Thus, the religious occult is regenerated and re-energised as an idiom of justice and fairness within the Nigerian state by militant youth fighting the forces of the Nigerian state. Ingeniously, the young men simply dug into the cultural repertoire of the people for a hitherto popular expression of justice and perceived source of potency which they felt would not only provide spiritual protection but also pander to the popular imagination of justice. Even against the background prevalent Christianity, the Egbesu does not generate tension in beliefs but responds to the critical exigency of the immediate socio-political milieu of the people.

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