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‘Soldiers of God or Allah’: Religious Politicization and the Boko Haram Crisis in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorMaiangwa, Benjamin
dc.coverage.spatial9en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-27T15:41:33Z
dc.date.available2014-06-27T15:41:33Z
dc.date.issued2014-02-10
dc.identifier.citationMaiangwa, B. (2014). ‘Soldiers of God or Allah’: Religious Politicization and the Boko Haram Crisis in Nigeria. Journal Of Terrorism Research, 5(1), pp. 58-66.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2049-7040en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/jtr/article/view/829en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/4920
dc.descriptionSpecial Edition issue - Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.description.abstractSeveral works on Boko Haram have underscored the issues of state weakness and bad governance in Nigeria as the major problematic fuelling the group’s violent activities. While the state fragility argument is indispensable, this paper argues that the religious dimension is also critical to any attempt to understand the Boko Haram crisis. To this end, the paper will examine how the historical and contemporary processes of religious politicization in Nigeria have contributed to the rise and radicalization of Boko Haram.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Terrorism Researchen_US
dc.rightsThis is an open access article published in Journal of Terrorism Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subjectreligious politicizationen_US
dc.subjectstate weaknessen_US
dc.subjectbad governanceen_US
dc.subjectBoko Haramen_US
dc.subjectterrorismen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Nigeriaen_US
dc.subject.lccHV6431en_US
dc.subject.lcshTerrorism -- Nigeriaen_US
dc.subject.lcshBoko Haramen_US
dc.subject.lcshReligion and politics -- Nigeriaen_US
dc.title‘Soldiers of God or Allah’: Religious Politicization and the Boko Haram Crisis in Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionhttps://doi.org/Publisher PDFen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.statusPeer revieweden_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.829en


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