Bellarmine A. Ezumah is associate professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Murray State University.Charles A. Ebelebe is academic dean at the Spiritan International School of Theology, Enugu, Nigeria.Olunifesi A. Suraj is associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Lagos and a UNESCO consultant on Media and Information Literacy.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Intersections and Inter-Influences of Media, Religion, and Politics by Bellarmine EzumahChapter 1: The History of The Major Religions in Africa and Religious Colonialism by Charles Ebelebe.Chapter 2: Islamic Intellectuals and The Quest for Reform in Nigeria: An Analytical Discourse by Acheme Ramson.Chapter 3: Normative Theoretical Analyses of Religion, Media, and Politics in Nigeria by Olunifesi Suraj.Chapter 4: Global Conflicts: The Direct Connection to Sustained Religious Conversion Campaign by Chika Okpalike,Chapter 5: Media as The New Areopagus: Proposing Theological Truth to Media’s Manufacture of Consent by Ayodele Ayeni. Chapter 6: Religion, Politics, and Freedom of Religion in Contemporary Conflict Resolution by Chukwuemeka Nwosu. Chapter 7: Political and Religious Literacy: How Media Illiteracy Placed Sub-Sahara Africa in A Disadvantaged Position by Acheme Ramson.About the Editors and Contributors

The contributors to this book interrogate one of the issues that influence Nigerian society and politics: religion. Like ethnicity, religion has been instrumentalized as a weapon in the country’s political economy. The authors offer credible evidence to support their analyses and interpretations of the interwoven relationship among religion, politics, and society. This book is a good addition to the scholarly quest to understanding the complexity of a plural African society.