February 2014

African indigenous religious rituals and magic in Ibadan politics: Issues for the democratisation process in Nigeria

The wind of democracy is blowing everywhere in Africa and particularly Nigeria. One remarkable aspect of this is that there exists a blend of indigenous religious rituals, magic and politics. These rituals in the ancient Yoruba kingdoms were used for checks and balances, deposing a bad ruler and protection of the citizenry. This is an important aspect of Nigerian demo¬cratization process that requires urgent...

Author(s): Jegede, Charles Obafemi

February 2014

Violence against women in Igboland, South-east, Nigeria: A critical quest for change

This paper examines some violent cultural practices such as widowhood discrimination, female genital mutilation, wife battery, and early girl child marriage perpetrated against Igbo women in the three senatorial districts of Ebonyi State, South-east Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of this study, four hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The questionnaire was one the instruments used for data collection. The...

Author(s): CHUKWU, Christian Chima, SCENT, Grace A.T, EMEKA, Josephat Owan, OBI, Christopher Ugochukwu and KALU, Emelike Okorie

February 2014

Child’s growth and nutritional status in two communities-Mishing tribe and Kaibarta caste of Assam, India

Physical growth and development studies were carried out among the populations of both tribal and non-tribal in eastern India by different scholars in different milieu and environmental factors from the eighties and onwards. Since then, the inhabitants of those areas have been doing agriculture, fishing, etc as prime occupation, but after a few decades in the same region, demographic and socio-economic changes took...

Author(s): Debashis Basu, Gulenur Islam, Ratul Gogoi, Swarupa Dey and Junumai Deori

February 2014

‘Forgotten and forgiven’? Calvinism and French Society

This paper identifies and addresses a curious and persisting omission in the sociological literature on Calvinism, as specifically expounded in sociological journals. The omission consists in the failure of explicitly specifying or restating what originally Calvinism is from the standpoint of societal origin and framework, that is of which society it is the collective creation, on the implied assumption that this is...

Author(s): Milan Zafirovski