- Title
- The relationship between politics and religion in Nigeria: a not so strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
- Creator
- Oloruntoba, Richard
- Relation
- Not So Strange Bedfellows p. 168-183
- Relation
- The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the 21st Century
- Relation
- www.cambridgescholars.com/not-so-strange-bedfellows-14
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The relationship between politics and religion in Nigeria seems analogous to the story of "Jekyll and Hyde," a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886 about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates the strange phenomenon of having more than one distinct personality in a person. In the story, there are two personalities within Dr Jekyll, one good and the other evil-completely opposite levels of morality in a single individual, a paradox of immense proportions. Politics as practiced by Nigerian leaders and politicians, military and civilian seems to be a constant interplay of good words and intentions expressed in public and symbolised by publicly identifying with Islam or Christianity while undertaking corrupt deeds and actions in secret which usually only become public knowledge by accident. Seen in this context religion seems to be just another tool for politicians to exploit, control, and distribute public resources for the benefit of the political and religious elite.
- Subject
- politics; Nigeria; religion; Jekyll and Hyde
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341324
- Identifier
- uon:28716
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781443848008
- Language
- eng
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