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This study employs Gramscian theory as an interpretive grid in examining the use of Christianity by European colonizers to facilitate their oppression of Africans on the continent and in diaspora. The work clarifies how the western powers utilized their religion in North America, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya to justify their exploitation of Blacks and how many Africans, as Christian converts, assisted them to accomplish their imperialist goals. In addition, this research explains how other Blacks, in these same locations, interpreted their own religious tradition or revised western Christian.

Ethiopia is an old society often confronted with new ideas and foreign values. As a result, social changes and modernisation were important contentious points especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some wanted change and progress at the expense of indigenous values, specifically cultural and political independence, while others opted for a more cautious approach. Inasmuch as Ethiopia's context was one in which the church and the state were accustomed to seeing themselves as two sides of the same coin, the discourse of modernisation had both a political and religious flavour to it. This article therefore aims to examine the volatile dynamics between religion (especially the Protestant churches of the 'southern peripheries') and the Marxist regime in modernising Ethiopia. Specifically, the article intends to explore how state-church relations transformed social thinking in Ethiopia. I begin by sketching the historical background and proceed to unravel the dilemma of modernisation. In the final part, I discuss how Protestantism contributed to modernising three aspects of social structure: the understanding of the human person, state-church relations and social organisation. ; http://www.hts.org.za ; am2018 ; Science of Religion and Missiology

El presente ensayo de síntesis entrega dos visiones historiográficas contrapuestas, referidas a la relación existente entre la religión y la política en el Islam. A partir de lo anterior, se establece que, para un determinado grupo de arabistas, la relación existente entre el Islam y la política se manifiesta desde el establecimiento del profeta en el oasis de Yatrib (Madinatal-nabi) y la consecuente consolidación de la Umma. Por otra parte, se presenta una visión opuesta, la cual plantea que el verdadero vínculo entre la religión y la política se gestaría a partir de la muerte de Muhammad, con el advenimiento de la sucesión y la acción de Mu'wyah, posterior iniciador de la dinastía Omeya

El presente ensayo de síntesis entrega dos visiones historiográficas contrapuestas, referidas a la relación existente entre la religión y la política en el Islam. A partir de lo anterior, se establece que, para un determinado grupo de arabistas, la relación existente entre el Islam y la política se manifiesta desde el establecimiento del profeta en el oasis de Yatrib (Madinatal-nabi) y la consecuente consolidación de la Umma. Por otra parte, se presenta una visión opuesta, la cual plantea que el verdadero vínculo entre la religión y la política se gestaría a partir de la muerte de Muhammad, con el advenimiento de la sucesión y la acción de Mu'wyah, posterior iniciador de la dinastía Omeya

This book examines the deployment of religious soft power in African states to influence international relations as well as the role and perception of politics for African people. The book analyzes how religion has been used as an instrument of persuasion and influence in a cross-disciplinary study of political science and religious studies.