Religion as a panacea in the pursuits of world peace: Christianity as a case study

Abstract

Religion and peace are two concepts that are generic in nature. This is obvious, that religion is conspicuously seen or cuts across all the facets of humanity viz: Spiritual, social, economic, psychological and physical. Sequel to this, the primary objective of this paper is to do a critical evaluation or presentation of the significant roles that religion plays in the plantation of peace in the world today. Still on this, we are to limit the scope of our discussions, by using Christianity as a case study in the pursuits of global peace. Religion now serves as a panacea, as a capacity building, as a vehicle, as a place of cross-pollination of ideas, principles, and ideologies that produces peace in the world, that brings respite and repositioning to the shattered and dislocated nature of man and even the society at large. Not only peace, religion especially Christianity is also the vehicle that champions the growth and development of western civilization, education, good governance and the likes; infact, it plays a significant roles in the wholistic development of man. Thus in this paper the writers adopted the following instrumentum laboris – working tools that they armed with in the execution of this write-up namely: in the area of methodology, the writers adopted the aspect of descriptive method. Then, to chisel out the beauty of this work, the authors anchors the nature (that is in the length and breadth), of our deliberations on the patronage of descriptive method as a research design that suits this work. And other ancillary tools like secondary sources and did not make use of oral interviews or primary sources.

Keywords

• religion
• peace
• building capacity
• religious sects (or bodies)
• world
• christianity.