RELIGION AND INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE

Agunwa Teresina Veronica Chiebonam, Okoye Herriet Nwando

Abstract


This paper examines Religion and Insecurity. It however, focuses on Nigeria
experience. Thus, the concepts of the subject matter were viewed such include:
religion, insecurity, causes of insecurity, visa-vis religion and insecurity:
Nigerian experience. However, Nigeria as a multination’s with different ethnoreligious
groups had been bedeviled with insecurity in an ethnic cum religious
dimensions. Hence, religion is “relatively-bounded system of beliefs symbols and
practice that addresses the nature of existence and in which communion with
others and otherness is lived as if it both takes in and spiritually transcends
socially-grounded ontology of time, space, embodiment and knowing”. Insecurity
on the other hand, is the state of being subject to danger of injury. The anxiety
that is experienced when one feels vulnerable and insecure. It is a feeling of
uncertainty, a lack of confidence or anxiety about yourself. Insecurity can also
describe the state of being open to danger or threat. The economy that may have
you worried about job insecurity. The study noted that the causes insecurity in
Nigeria include; kidnapping, militancy, unemployment, fear of distrusted
government, etc not withstanding some recommendations are made based on the
study as a way forward.

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