Simeon O Ilesanmi
Biographic Data
| ID | 183267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simeon O Ilesanmi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simeon |
| FAMILY NAME | O Ilesanmi |
| SIGNATURE | ILESANMI S O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African Conceptions of Human Dignity
Contributors join together in this tenth ACLARS volume to propose a framing of human rights in terms of African conceptions of human dignity. Following on the signing of the Punta del Este and Botswana Declarations of Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere in 2018 and 2023, contributors discuss human dignity as an African and indigenous concept grounded in relationship, community, and an overarching ethic of Ubuntu. Chapters further explore human …
Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom
The editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a recent incident at Hamline University that made national headlines. Last fall, Hamline University administrators refused to extend a contract to an adjunct professor of art history after a Muslim student accused her of Islamophobia for showing a 14th‐century image of Mohammad in an online class. The event provoked intense conversations about issues of academi…
In Honor and Memory of Sumner B. Twiss
Sumner B. (Barney) Twiss, who died in 2023, was for ten years a General Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics ( JRE ). He was a frequent contributor of articles, a member of the JRE Editorial Board, and a member of the journal's Board of Trustees. In this article, colleagues and students reflect on some of his many contributions, not only to the JRE but to the broader discursive fields of comparative religious ethics and human rights
Religious Ethics and the Human Dignity Revolution
Human dignity, even when analyzed through the lens of human rights, has received surprisingly little attention in the Journal of Religious Ethics , in contrast to a resurgent global interest in it. This article examines some possible reasons for this diminutive interest and makes a case for dignity's integration into the mainstream of religious ethics scholarship. A social conception of human dignity understands it as a conferment that entitles i…
Political Atrocities, Moral Indignation, and Forgiveness in African Religious Ethics
Scholarship on transitional justice has oscillated between the pedagogical value of moral magnanimity, shown by victims of past atrocities who choose to forgive their wrongdoers, and the deterrent effect of imposing punishment on the offenders, which includes making restitution to the victims of their wrongful actions. This article examines the views of two African thinkers on this issue, Archbishop Desmond Tutu who argues for forgiveness, and Wo…
Recentering Christian Ethics as Comparative Religious Ethics: In Defense of Emancipatory Criticism and Common Morality
The filial relationship between Christian ethics and Comparative Religious Ethics (CRE) need not be perniciously distortive and can be salutary for comparative work. I suggest that the suspicions about CRE as a disguised form of a “Christian ethical enterprise” are overstated and that we can appreciate the value of the legacy of Christian ethics for comparative work in the focal themes of emancipatory criticism and common morality. Both of these …
Introduction: Islam and Just War Tradition
Sharia Reasoning, Political Legitimacy, and Democratic Visions
No other major religion has been more misunderstood and mischaracterized in recent memory than Islam. The geographical location of its origin invites intuitive, often condescending, comparison with its putative cultural cousins—Judaism and Christianity; the mode and pattern of its evangelistic strategy, especially at its incipient stage, is often cited by some to call into question the authenticity of its spiritual message; the perception that th…
A Response to Hans Lucht's “Violence and Morality: The Concession of Loss in a Ghanaian Fishing Village”
The violent encounter between Africans and the forces of globalization raises the question of whether Africans should capitulate to these forces or seek to morally transform them, notwithstanding the uncertainty of achieving success. This essay argues that an exclusively existentialist interpretation of the African predicaments is inadequate because it erects a false dichotomy between African religious and moral sensibilities. It proposes instead…
Leave No Poor Behind: Globalization and the Imperative of Socio‐Economic and Development Rights from an African Perspective
Globalization is being celebrated in many circles as a distinctive achievement of our age, drawing peoples and societies more closely together and creating far greater wealth than any previous generations ever knew. While the first of these assertions is correct in the sense that societies and cultures are colliding, hitherto relatively closed horizons are opening up, and spaces and time are compressing, the second deserves critical interrogation…
Political and Moral Responsibility of Religion in Africa
Constitutional Treatment of Religion and the Politics of Human Rights in Nigeria
Journal Article Constitutional Treatment of Religion and the Politics of Human Rights in Nigeria Get access Simeon O. Ilesanmi Simeon O. Ilesanmi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 401, 1 October 2001, Pages 529–554, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/100.401.529 Published: 01 October 2001
Just War Theory In Comparative Perspective: A Review Essay
The late twentieth century has provided both reasons and occasions for reassessing just war theory as an organizing framework for the moral analysis of war. Books by G. Scott Davis, James T. Johnson, and John Kelsay, together with essays by Jeffrey Stout, Charles Butterworth, David Little, Bruce Lawrence, Courtney Campbell, and Tamara Sonn, signal a remarkable shift in war studies as they enlarge the cultural lens through which the interests and …
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State. Monographs in International Studies, Africa series, 66, Athens OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1997, 330 pp., £22.00, ISBN 0 89680 194 2, paperback. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
In the case of Nigeria, scholarship on religious politics has not adequately taken into account the pluralistic context and the idealistic pretensions of the state that inhibit the possibility of forging an enduring civic amity among Nigeria's diverse groups. Ilesanmi proposes a new philosophy or model of religio-political interaction, which he calls dialogic politics. Dialogic politics celebrates pluralism and suggests that religious institution…
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
The myth of a secular state: A study of religious politics with historical illustrations
Religion has continued to assert itself as a significant moral force in Nigeria's post‐independence politics; however, some recent studies of the country's political life tend to dismiss religion as a kind of mystical irrationality or an act of deluded trust. After conducting an audit of what I take to be the assets and the liabilities of the intellectual traditions underpinning this secularist preference, I propose a theory of political morality…
Recent Theories of Religion and Politics in Nigeria
Journal Article Recent Theories of Religion and Politics in Nigeria Get access Simeon O. Ilesanmi Simeon O. Ilesanmi assistant professor of religion Wake Forest Unviersity Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 37, Issue 2, Spring 1995, Pages 309–327, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/37.2.309 Published: 01 March 1995
Constitutional Treatment of Religion and the Politics of Human Rights in Nigeria
Journal Article Constitutional Treatment of Religion and the Politics of Human Rights in Nigeria Get access Simeon O. Ilesanmi Simeon O. Ilesanmi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 401, 1 October 2001, Pages 529–554, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/100.401.529 Published: 01 October 2001
The myth of a secular state: A study of religious politics with historical illustrations
Religion has continued to assert itself as a significant moral force in Nigeria's post‐independence politics; however, some recent studies of the country's political life tend to dismiss religion as a kind of mystical irrationality or an act of deluded trust. After conducting an audit of what I take to be the assets and the liabilities of the intellectual traditions underpinning this secularist preference, I propose a theory of political morality…
Recent Theories of Religion and Politics in Nigeria
Journal Article Recent Theories of Religion and Politics in Nigeria Get access Simeon O. Ilesanmi Simeon O. Ilesanmi assistant professor of religion Wake Forest Unviersity Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 37, Issue 2, Spring 1995, Pages 309–327, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/37.2.309 Published: 01 March 1995
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
In the case of Nigeria, scholarship on religious politics has not adequately taken into account the pluralistic context and the idealistic pretensions of the state that inhibit the possibility of forging an enduring civic amity among Nigeria's diverse groups. Ilesanmi proposes a new philosophy or model of religio-political interaction, which he calls dialogic politics. Dialogic politics celebrates pluralism and suggests that religious institution…
Just War Theory In Comparative Perspective: A Review Essay
The late twentieth century has provided both reasons and occasions for reassessing just war theory as an organizing framework for the moral analysis of war. Books by G. Scott Davis, James T. Johnson, and John Kelsay, together with essays by Jeffrey Stout, Charles Butterworth, David Little, Bruce Lawrence, Courtney Campbell, and Tamara Sonn, signal a remarkable shift in war studies as they enlarge the cultural lens through which the interests and …
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State. Monographs in International Studies, Africa series, 66, Athens OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1997, 330 pp., £22.00, ISBN 0 89680 194 2, paperback. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Political and Moral Responsibility of Religion in Africa
Constitutional Treatment of Religion and the Politics of Human Rights in Nigeria
Journal Article Constitutional Treatment of Religion and the Politics of Human Rights in Nigeria Get access Simeon O. Ilesanmi Simeon O. Ilesanmi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 401, 1 October 2001, Pages 529–554, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/100.401.529 Published: 01 October 2001
Leave No Poor Behind: Globalization and the Imperative of Socio‐Economic and Development Rights from an African Perspective
Globalization is being celebrated in many circles as a distinctive achievement of our age, drawing peoples and societies more closely together and creating far greater wealth than any previous generations ever knew. While the first of these assertions is correct in the sense that societies and cultures are colliding, hitherto relatively closed horizons are opening up, and spaces and time are compressing, the second deserves critical interrogation…
A Response to Hans Lucht's “Violence and Morality: The Concession of Loss in a Ghanaian Fishing Village”
The violent encounter between Africans and the forces of globalization raises the question of whether Africans should capitulate to these forces or seek to morally transform them, notwithstanding the uncertainty of achieving success. This essay argues that an exclusively existentialist interpretation of the African predicaments is inadequate because it erects a false dichotomy between African religious and moral sensibilities. It proposes instead…
Introduction: Islam and Just War Tradition
Sharia Reasoning, Political Legitimacy, and Democratic Visions
No other major religion has been more misunderstood and mischaracterized in recent memory than Islam. The geographical location of its origin invites intuitive, often condescending, comparison with its putative cultural cousins—Judaism and Christianity; the mode and pattern of its evangelistic strategy, especially at its incipient stage, is often cited by some to call into question the authenticity of its spiritual message; the perception that th…
Recentering Christian Ethics as Comparative Religious Ethics: In Defense of Emancipatory Criticism and Common Morality
The filial relationship between Christian ethics and Comparative Religious Ethics (CRE) need not be perniciously distortive and can be salutary for comparative work. I suggest that the suspicions about CRE as a disguised form of a “Christian ethical enterprise” are overstated and that we can appreciate the value of the legacy of Christian ethics for comparative work in the focal themes of emancipatory criticism and common morality. Both of these …
Political Atrocities, Moral Indignation, and Forgiveness in African Religious Ethics
Scholarship on transitional justice has oscillated between the pedagogical value of moral magnanimity, shown by victims of past atrocities who choose to forgive their wrongdoers, and the deterrent effect of imposing punishment on the offenders, which includes making restitution to the victims of their wrongful actions. This article examines the views of two African thinkers on this issue, Archbishop Desmond Tutu who argues for forgiveness, and Wo…
African Conceptions of Human Dignity
Contributors join together in this tenth ACLARS volume to propose a framing of human rights in terms of African conceptions of human dignity. Following on the signing of the Punta del Este and Botswana Declarations of Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere in 2018 and 2023, contributors discuss human dignity as an African and indigenous concept grounded in relationship, community, and an overarching ethic of Ubuntu. Chapters further explore human …
Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom
The editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a recent incident at Hamline University that made national headlines. Last fall, Hamline University administrators refused to extend a contract to an adjunct professor of art history after a Muslim student accused her of Islamophobia for showing a 14th‐century image of Mohammad in an online class. The event provoked intense conversations about issues of academi…
In Honor and Memory of Sumner B. Twiss
Sumner B. (Barney) Twiss, who died in 2023, was for ten years a General Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics ( JRE ). He was a frequent contributor of articles, a member of the JRE Editorial Board, and a member of the journal's Board of Trustees. In this article, colleagues and students reflect on some of his many contributions, not only to the JRE but to the broader discursive fields of comparative religious ethics and human rights
Religious Ethics and the Human Dignity Revolution
Human dignity, even when analyzed through the lens of human rights, has received surprisingly little attention in the Journal of Religious Ethics , in contrast to a resurgent global interest in it. This article examines some possible reasons for this diminutive interest and makes a case for dignity's integration into the mainstream of religious ethics scholarship. A social conception of human dignity understands it as a conferment that entitles i…
Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (9 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)