o:id
	5448
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5448
o:resource_template
	Book chapter
o:resource_class
	bibo:Chapter
dcterms:title
	Performing Religiosity: Protest and Prayer Performance in a Nigerian University
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25234
dcterms:date
	2023
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8476
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121125886 Q121125886
	iwac-reference-0000516
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:alternative
	Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa: Trends and Experiences
dcterms:abstract
	This chapter focuses on campus religiosity at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, by exploring the connection between labour activism and spiritualities. It examines the convergence of prayer practices of Christianity, Islam and African traditional religion as political praxis. It considers the sacred space and some practices that allowed three ideologically distinct religions to stay simultaneously connected. The study relies on materials gathered from in-depth interviews, participant observation and media reports. It utilizes Welsch’s (1999) transculturality and FitzGerald’s (2012) prayer performance as frameworks to bring to light religious tolerance and harmonious relationships among the three religions on the campus. The study discovers that multi-religious prayers were largely ennobled by the protesting non-academic staff’s shared identity of transcultural values. The non-teaching staff unions of Nigerian universities comprise the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT). The study concludes that the paradigm of traditional African religion, with its obsession with rituals and sometimes malicious purposes, may have a polemical purpose.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/541
dcterms:provenance
	Berlin
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/2069
bibo:editorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1284
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/858
bibo:pageEnd
	242
bibo:pageStart
	219

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