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This book examines the deployment of religious soft power in African states to influence international relations as well as the role and perception of politics for African people. The book analyzes how religion has been used as an instrument of persuasion and influence in a cross-disciplinary study of political science and religious studies.
List of contents
Foreword
Jeffrey Haynes
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Religion and Global Politics: Soft Power in Nigeria and Beyond
Olusola Ogunnubi and Sheriff Folarin
Part One: Africa and the World
Chapter Two: Integrating religion as a tool for public diplomacy in the 21st Century Africa
Toyin Cotties Adetiba
Chapter Three: Post-Colonial Relations in Africa and the Emergence of Religion as an Instrument for Inter-State Diplomacy
Victor H. Mlambo and Olusola Ogunnubi
Chapter Four: Faith-based Organizations as Soft Power for Social Development in Africa
Michael Ihuoma OGU
Chapter Five: Forty years and still counting: Shia exportation and the character of the Nigeria-Iran relations, 1979-2019
Charles E. Ekpo and Ekwutosi E. Offiong
Part Two: Other Countries within Africa
Chapter Six: How Many Divisions? Soft Power, Personal Diplomacy, and the Holy See
Hendrik W. Ohnesorge
Chapter Seven: Religion and soft power in African foreign policy: Morocco's new religious diplomacy towards Nigeria
Mathieu Rowsell
Chapter Eight: Nye, Soft Power, and Conflict Resolution: Centring Trado-Religious Soft Power in Conflict Processes in Africa
Surulola Eke
Part Three: Perspectives from Nigeria
Chapter Nine: Determinants of Nigeria's Foreign Policy: Making a Case for Religion
Oladotun E. Awosusi and Charles E. Ekpo
Chapter Ten: Nigeria's Religious Soft Power: Turning the Tide of a Declining Image
Olusola Ogunnubi, Sheriff Folarin, and Confidence Ogbonna
Chapter Eleven: Islam and Nigerian Foreign Policy: Processes, Procedures and Personalities
Abubakar A. Usman, Elfatih A Abdelsalam, and Hakeem Onapajo
Chapter Twelve: Anglicanism and Soft Power in Nigeria: Dimensions and Prospects
Opeyemi Idowu Aluko
Chapter Thirteen: Pentecostal Mega Churches and Religious Diplomacy in Nigeria
Irene Pogoson and Maduabuchi Ogidi
Chapter Fourteen: Music Diplomacy: The Soft Power of Nigerian Gospel Melody
Olusola Ogunnubi and Dare Leke Idowu
Chapter Fifteen: Gospel Music Cosmopolitanism in Lagos, Nigeria and the Soft Power Potential of its Iconic Practitioners
Lanre Kunnuji
Chapter Sixteen: Religious Soft Power influence of Nigeria's major Pentecostal leaders: Sources and implications for Nigeria and its Regional Power Status
Dare Leke Idowu
About the author
Sheriff Folarin is founding editor of Covenant University Journal of Politics and International Relations and current head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Covenant University in Nigeria.
Olusola Ogunnubi is research fellow at the Centre for Gender and African Studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa and visiting researcher at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Summary
This book examines the deployment of religious soft power in African states to influence international relations as well as the role and perception of politics for African people. The book analyzes how religion has been used as an instrument of persuasion and influence in a cross-disciplinary study of political science and religious studies.
