Religious Attachment and Social Development in the Web of Democracy in Nigeria

Abstract

Religious attachment has had considerable influence upon development in many nations of the world. There have always been considerations that societies would modernize to accept other people's religion, however, this has not been realized as technological and social development, and other indicators of modernization have made many people to feel loss in social settings.  Many have had to accept alienation and self defence as the major means of finding solace much that individual religious group or denomination become vital means of socialization, which has been against development particularly in Nigeria. The cases of extreme religious actions particularly in the North East and the Southern Kaduna State, Nigeria have been found to beanti-development.  This has equally tended to be a threat to democracy because the claims of fundamental human rights on every platform including religion have not helped to grow or develop Nigeria. Consequently, attempt to develop the nation by changing laws, morality, social norms and political configurations has been found to be a difficult task to achieve in the contemporary Nigeria. This paper therefore examines the place of Religious attachment on Social Development in the democratic Nigeria while it recommends the maintenance of religious pluralism with caution to facilitate National development.