Christians' and Muslims' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

Battling the Unknown

Afis A. Oladosu, Abdulrazaq Kilani, Samuel Okanlawon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0571-7 (ISBN)

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This collection of essays attempts to speak to the past, as it does the future. It engages the dialectics in Christians and Muslims' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from theological, philosophical, sociological and gender perspectives. The interdisciplinary approach became a necessity based on the realization that beyond the high fatalities that resulted from the pandemic, people's responses to it were as eclectic as were their existential realities. This volume is particularly unique because it yields space to Christianity and Islam and presents the trajectories in their practitioners' response to the pandemic. The authors historicize, theorize and theologize these responses and present exemplar templates of coping mechanisms for religious institutions and people faced with unconventional situations bordering on religious ideals. The book is a valuable resource for scholars, religious leaders, historians, health practitioners and faith-based organizations on strategies to adopt for future pandemics.

Afis Ayinde Oladosu is a professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His scholarly expertise straddles cultural criticism, Islamic orthopraxy, Arab-Muslim modernities, and Christian-Muslim relations. Oladosu is an alumnus of the Fulbright Scholarship Program (US) and winner of many other fellowships and scholarships.Abdulrazaq Kilani is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His research focuses on Islamic banking and finance, the Muslim minority of the Niger Delta (Nigeria) and contemporary issues on Islam. He is an alumnus of Studies of the United States Institutes (SUSI), University of California, USA.Samuel Okanlawon is Senior Lecturer in Christian Theology at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His scholarship focuses on the theological interpretation of issues within socio-ecclesiological contexts in Africa. He collaborates with the World Evangelical Alliance, USA, in using faith-based strategy to counter gender-specific persecution in Nigeria.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-0571-0 / 1036405710
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0571-7 / 9781036405717
Zustand	Neuware