o:id
	12740
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12740
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	Religious Violence and Democracy in Niger
dcterms:subject
	religious violence
	democracy
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25012
dcterms:date
	2016
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116295171 Q116295171
	iwac-reference-0000240
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	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.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1726
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.6.1.05 10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.6.1.05
bibo:issue
	1
bibo:pageEnd
	104
bibo:pageStart
	89
bibo:volume
	6

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