Original Research
Navigating Religious values in Nigeria’s Democratic Landscape
Chioma Patricia Onuorah and Wilson Ejiofor Anowia
Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies | Vol. 11, No 2 | © 2023 Chioma Patricia Onuorah and Wilson Ejiofor Anowia | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 21 May 2023 | Published: 27 October 2023
About the author(s)
1Chioma Patricia Onuorah, PhD, is a lecturer both in Humanities Unit, School of General Studies and Department of Religion and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
2Wilson Ejiofor Anowia, PhD, is a lecturer in Humanities Unit, School of General Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
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Abstract
Nigeria is a democratic country. Political actors in Nigeria have covered themselves with the spirit of favouritism, unequal allocation of resources, sectionalism, unbalanced political structure and political struggle to be in control of power. This negates the principle of organic unity in diversity which could amount to crisis. Democracy connotes respect for the sovereignty of the people and can only be realized in an atmosphere of love for one another and patriotism. Therefore, integrating religious values into the democratic system becomes paramount. This paper examines how religious values could be used to improve the democratic culture of the country. It adopts a qualitative research approach and data was collected from secondary sources. The findings revealed the ineffectiveness of democracy without religious values; some religious values have direct link with essential of democracy. This paper advocates religious values for lasting democracy and continuously advancing towards an improved society.
Keywords
Democracy, political leaders, religious values, Nigerians, Nigerian society