01/07/2026 15:00
- 17:10
HALL: Pola - A206a
Contact:
Dube B.
Chair:
Albert Mvunda N.
Religion continue to be used as a tool of repression in many Global North Countries. Research has shown that conflict which has a religious undertone is hard to mitigate especially if the adherents exhibit extremist behaviours. As such, political parties, have seen the power of religion in consolidation undemocratic practice to an extent of using it to stay long in power. The foregoing questions the moral validity of religion in conflict or oppressive society. Thus, this panel seeks to interrogate the question of religion in suffering from many angles such as philosophy, sociological and educational among many other variables. Part of the debate is centered around how Eurocentric religions have been eternalised in African context to an extent that they contribute to suffering of people? How diminishing religion in the European context have such a great influence in Global South in relation to political oppression and silencing dissenting voices? Such question and many others are able to position this topic as novel in contributing to the current conversation about and on religion and its presence in Global South
