Cette étude vise essentiellement à démontrer que les facteurs religieux dans la sphère publique nigériane ont peu intéressé les intellectuels. Elle se propose donc à combler ce vide, en mettant en relief les facteurs religieux dans la sphère publique du Nigeria, à en juger par la spiritualisation de la politique et des élections, l’interprétation des manifestes des partis politiques, les modes de scrutin, le choix des candidats et des dirigeants du parti, les cérémonies d’investiture, la conception et la mise en œuvre des mesures de politique, parmi d’autres exemples. Les implications de ces variables pour la promotion de l’éthique et des idéologies politiques ont été également abordées. Les données obtenues à partir d’interviews menées avec des personnalités politiques sélectionnées au hasard aussi bien que des documents historiques politiques ont été analysés et débattus dans le cadre de la théorie fonctionnelle de la religion. Après examen des fardeaux et perspectives inhérents aux discours, l’étude fait des recommandations sur les voies et moyens de transformer la religion en un vérita le outil permanent de promotion de la bonne gouvernance au Nigeria.
Ayantayo, J.K. 2009. 5 - Religious Factors in the Nigerian Public Sphere: Burdens and Prospects: https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v34i3-4.63530. Afrique et développement. 34, 3-4 (juin 2009). DOI:https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v34i3-4.63530.
Ayantayo, Jacob Kehinde (Ph. D), is a Professor of Religious Ethics, Religion and Society, Peace and Conflict Issues in Religions. He is of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, but also an adjunct Professor (for the Peace and Conflict Studies Programme in many Nigerian Universities. He served (and still serves) in a Consultancy capacity in Curriculum development on Peace Studies and Research in Religious Studies programmes in several Nigerian Universities and Theological Institutions. Professor Ayantayo, a recipient and awardee of the MacArthur grant and Fellow of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (fSPSP) was a visiting Professor at Universitat Bayreuth, Germany, in 2006. A founder and pioneer president of the African Society for the Study of Sociology and Ethics of Religions has over 80 publications on the interface between religion and social issues generally. Two of his scholarly books, which have received tremendous market acceptability not only in the Nigerian Universities and Seminaries but also in Ghana, Cameron and Kenya are Fundamentals of Religious Ethics and Rudiments of Research and Research in Religious Studies. This same goes for his popular inaugural lecture entitled “Rescuing God from His Abductors”. Emails: ayantayokehinde@gmail.com, jk.ayantayo@mail.ui.edu.ng: Phone: 08034297780
FIVE RECENT PUBLICATIONS 1. Ayantayo, J.K. (2018) Rescuing God from His Abductors, Inaugural Lecture Published by Ibadan University Press 2. Ayantayo, J.K. and Ayantayo G.N. (2019) The Dilemma of Not Seeing Outside from Inside and the Inside from the Outside in the Nigerian Religious Mirror” in Readings in Peace and Conflict: Essay in Honour of Professor Isaac Olawale Albert, Bogoro E.S, Meyer, M and Danjibo, N.D. (Eds) Ibadan: Society for Peace Studies and Practice, pp 272-293. 3. Ayantayo, J.K (2020) “Conquering ‘Enemies Within’: A Moral Therapy for Healing Nigerian Entrepreneurship” Journal of African Society for the study of Sociology and Ethics of Religions, Vol 7, June 2020, pp 1-24 4. Ayantayo, J.K (2020) Christian Education and Church Growth in Nigeria, A Festschrift in Honour of Pastor Professor, Stephen Oluwatoyin Ajayi, Ibadan: Hope Publications. 5. Ayantayo, J.K (2021) Genderisation in Treating COVOD 19 Patients in Kano, Nigeria: A Plus or Minus for Women COVID 19; African Women and the Will to Survive, Helen A Labeodan, Rosemary Amenga-Etego, Johanna Stiebet, Mark S Aidoo, (eds) Germany: University of Bamberg Press, pp 39- 52
