Another excellent forthcoming title from Duke University Press that we’ve indexed is Abiodun Alao’s Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria. This book investigates the culture of violence that has developed alongside religious conflict in post-independence Nigeria and situates the phenomenon within a context that includes colonialism, domestic and global politics, and ethnic conflict. Alao’s book “discusses the histories of Christianity, Islam, and traditional religions in the territory that became Nigeria, the effects of colonization on the role of religion, the development of Islamic radicalization and its relation to Christian violence, the activities of Boko Haram, and how religious violence intermixes with politics and governance. In so doing, he uses religious violence as a way to more fully understand intergroup relations in contemporary Nigeria.” You can find more information about Rage and Carnage, which is scheduled to be published in August 2022, at the Duke University Press website.
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