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Law, Religion and Human Flourishing in Africa /
A shared interest of law and religion is the advancement of human flourishing, yet there is no common understanding of what it means for humans to flourish and the means by which to attain a flourishing life. The concept of human flourishing is especially important for Africa, where community and na...
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AFRICAN SUN MeDIA,
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION I. Religious freedom and human flourishing in Nigeria -- 1. Squaring the circle: Freedom of religion and secularism in the Nigerian constitution -- Introduction -- History of freedom of religion in Nigerian jurisprudence -- The 1959 Constitutional Conference: negotiating Nigerian religious freedom -- Management of sharia in Nigerian constitutionalism -- The 1959 settlement and the privatisation of sharia -- Privatisation of sharia and limitation of Sharia Courts -- Secularity as a contested constitutional norm | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Section 10 of the Nigerian Constitution and non-establishment of religion -- Comparative secularist perspectives and assessment of Nigerian secularism -- Tension between secularity and religious freedom in Nigeria -- Disestablishment in the 1979 Constitution -- Rawlsian ordering and the "fact of pluralism" -- Nigerian constitutional confusion on religion -- Conclusion -- 2. Human flourishing, church leadership and legal disputes in Nigerian churches -- Introduction -- Conceptualisation of terms -- Churches and the promotion of human flourishing -- Church disputes | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) -- Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) -- Effects of church disputes on human flourishing -- Strife amongst members -- Loss of reputation -- Loss of focus and progress -- Waste of resources -- Schism and burden of members -- Towards effective internal governance mechanisms -- Conclusion -- 3. Freedom of, from or for religion: Perspectives from proscription of religious activities in halls of residence at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria -- Introduction -- Contentions over boundaries of religious freedom in higher education space | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Regulatory framework for sound disturbance in Nigeria -- National and state level regulations -- Higher education institution regulations -- Research context and methodology -- The politics of religion at Obafemi Awolowo University -- Methodology of the instant study -- Findings and discussion -- Sound disturbance as the rationale for the proscription -- The nature, periodicity and temporality of religious activities and sound disturbances -- Debating the policy implications of the proscription -- Re-negotiating education space between religion and sound: freedom of, from or for religion? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Conclusion -- 4. The wearing of hijab in public educational institutions in Nigeria: A call for alternative dispute resolution -- Introduction -- Constitutional guarantee of right to freedom of religion -- Bashirat Saliu & 2 Others v The Provost Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin -- Sheik Salaudeen Ade Olayiwola & 3 Others v The Government of Osun State -- The Nigerian Law School case -- Alternative dispute resolution in the context of the Nigerian hijab cases -- Conclusion -- 5. Religious freedom and rule of law as panacea for human flourishing in Nigeria -- Introduction | |
| 520 | |a A shared interest of law and religion is the advancement of human flourishing, yet there is no common understanding of what it means for humans to flourish and the means by which to attain a flourishing life. The concept of human flourishing is especially important for Africa, where community and national development compete with forces of conflict and scarce resources. In the broadest sense, the concept of human flourishing focuses our attention on having a comprehensively good or worthwhile life, but various religious and legal traditions suggest different norms for measuring the quality of life and designing the institutional structures that could best facilitate and preserve it. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Religious ethics |z Africa. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Religion et droit |z Afrique. | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Morale religieuse |z Afrique. | |
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