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 African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review dcterms:date 2016 dcterms:type https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475 Article de revue dcterms:identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116295171 Q116295171 iwac-reference-0000240 dcterms:language https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322 Anglais 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 Niger bibo:authorList https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1726 Lisa Mueller 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 --