Contextualizing Africans and Globalization : Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Globalization and Entrepreneurial Development in Nigeria -- 2 Globalization, Family System, and Challenges of Socio-Political Stability in Africa -- 3 The African Returnees from Brazil and the Politics of Post-Slavery Migration -- 4 The Dynamics of Revenue and Relations -- 5 The Nemesis of Individualistic Ontology of Globalization to the Practice of Liberal Democracy in the Post-Colonial Africa -- 6 The Seventeenth-Century African Slaves and Descendants Identity Empowerment through Religious Rituals -- 7 The Dynamics and Challenges of Social Networks on the Moral and Religious Development of Nigerian Youth -- 8 The Role of Religion, Ethics, Proverbs, and Poetry in Shaping Lives in Africa -- 9 African Traditional Medicine and Globalization -- 10 The Use of African Traditional Medicine, Western Medicine, and Christian Faith Healing in Yorùbáland, Southwestern Nigeria -- 11 The Practice of African Religion, Islam, and Christianity in a Globalized Nigerian Society -- 12 Interrogating the Islamic Approach to Family and Societal Problems in Contemporary Nigeria -- 13 Domestic Violence in the Contemporary Muslim Community of Ilorin, Nigeria -- 14 Biblical and Judicial Laws -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This book highlights the significance and consequences of globalization in the sociopolitical and religious experience with African worldviews, both nationally and throughout its diaspora. Through a multi- and interdisciplinary discourse, the diversity of opinions captures the complexity and plurality of global dynamics on African globalization.

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