Religious Violence and Democracy in Niger
- Titre
- Religious Violence and Democracy in Niger
- liste des auteurs
- Lisa Mueller
- Résumé
- Deadly attacks on Christians and mounting resistance to secularism in Niger raise the question of whether the Muslim-majority country is turning away from democracy and toward a repressive form of Shari'a law. I argue that religious extremism in Niger has largely external roots and that domestic religious leaders are not pursuing a revolutionary agenda, even though they are increasingly involved in organizing social movements. The foreign nature of terrorist threats may even help preserve democracy by raising nationalist support for the state.
- volume
- 6
- numéro
- 1
- première page
- 89
- dernière page
- 104
- Date
- 2016
- Langue
- Anglais
- Type
- Article de revue
- Sujet
- religious violence
- democracy
- Couverture spatiale
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Niger