RELIGION AND INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

This paper examines Religion and Insecurity. It however, focuses on Nigeria experience. Thus, the concepts of the subject matter were viewed such include: religion,, insecurity, causes of insecurity, visa-vis religion and insecurity: Nigerian experience. However, Nigeria as a multination’s with different ethno-religious groups had been bedeviled with insecurity in an ethnic cum religious dimensions. Hence, religion is “relatively-bounded system of beliefs symbols and practice that addresses the nature of existence and in which communion with others and otherness is lived as if it both takes in and spiritually transcends socially-grounded ontology of time, space, embodiment and knowing”. Insecurity on the other hand, is the state of being subject to danger of injury. The anxiety that is experienced when one feels vulnerable and insecure. It is a feeling of uncertainty, a lack of confidence or anxiety about yourself. Insecurity can also describe the state of being open to danger or threat. The economy that may have you worried about job insecurity. The study noted that the causes insecurity in Nigeria include; kidnapping, militancy, unemployment, fear of distrusted government, etc not withstanding some recommendations are made based on the study as a way forward.