Freedom of Religion and Its Regulation in Nigeria

Analysis of Preaching Board Laws in Some States of Northern Nigeria
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35311-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 82 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in International Law / Brill Research Perspectives in Law and Religion

In Freedom of Religion and Its Regulation in Nigeria: Analysis of Preaching Board Laws in Some States of Northern Nigeria, Ahmed Salisu Garba provides an account of how states in Northern Nigeria have enacted laws to regulate religious preaching in the spheres of influence. The work examines the debates surrounding the laws and how the state in collaboration with dominant religious groups persecuted members of minority religious in the states.
The author applied an argumentative approach to raise and analyse issues relating to the reasonability of the laws in Nigeria, reasons for their enactment, judicial review mechanisms employed in the determination of the reasonability of the laws in democracies, and how they accord with the freedom of religion clause in the Nigerian Constitution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salisu Garba, Ahmed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Afrika (außer Südafrika)

Über Autor(innen)

Ahmed Salisu Garba, is the Deputy Dean and Head of Department of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of Bauchi State University. He is a final year Doctoral Student at the Faculty of Law of the Bayero University Kano and was a Visiting Scholar at the University Of Iowa College of Law from August, 2013 – December, 2013. He has presented papers at different international conferences in the UK, USA and African countries in the area of law and religion, including a publication on the regulation of Shiites freedom of religion in Kaduna State in Nigeria (ACLARS, 2017).