Abstract Samuel Chukwudi Agunyai and Hope A. Ikedinma wrote on religious hate sermons,
electoral violence, and national disintegration in Africa. They argued that religion in itself is …

Extant literature is replete with studies on electoral process in Africa and, in particular,
Nigeria. However, there is dearth of scholarly interest in interrogating the import of …

Although research has shown how compromised electoral umpire, partisan use of security
forces and ethno-religious sentiments can impinge on the integrity and credibility of the …

This chapter provides the background to the volume. It outlines the longstanding debate on
the relationship between politics and religion in scholarship in general. The chapter …

Although Nigerian elections are sufficiently observed by domestic and international observer
groups, the frequent pronouncements of religious leaders claiming to have supernatural …

In Nigeria, there have emerged a trend of unscientific predictions of electoral outcomes,
mostly, attributed or rooted in divine, transcendental, sacred or mysterious exposition …

In the next section, I connect pre-digital media era rumouring to modern day disinformation
campaigns to trace how political campaigns have evolved from the traditional door-to-door …

The study of Pentecostalism has continued to occupy a center stage among the themes of
global discourse in modern times. Pentecostalism in recent times is providing a paradigm …

All over the world, hate speech represents a form of threat to damage the lives of individuals
and increase the sense of fear in entire communities (Hassan & Owolabi, 2020). Abimbola …