中国人民大学商学院贸易系副教授,博士生导师。主要社会兼职:中国流通30人论坛(G30)副秘书长、新零售50人论坛(N50)副秘书长、新服务30人论坛(NS30)理事、中国商业经济学会副会长。学术经历2002年中国人民大学产业经济专业经济学博士,20...中国人民大学商学院贸易系副教授,博士生导师。主要社会兼职:中国流通30人论坛(G30)副秘书长、新零售50人论坛(N50)副秘书长、新服务30人论坛(NS30)理事、中国商业经济学会副会长。学术经历2002年中国人民大学产业经济专业经济学博士,2009-2010年美国加利福尼亚州立大学San Jose分校(San Jose State University)访问学者,2010-2011年担任日本关西学院大学客座教授。展开更多
Social theorists have engaged religion as a social agent and submitted that it has the capacity to foster positive and negative changes in the society. Milton Yinger, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx lead the pack among ...Social theorists have engaged religion as a social agent and submitted that it has the capacity to foster positive and negative changes in the society. Milton Yinger, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx lead the pack among other sociologists. The need to therefore interrogate religion as an agent of social engineering cannot be overemphasized normatively and functionally. One of the implications of such engagement is that religion; study and practice need to respond to issues in the society. Basic challenges facing the Nigerian nation are issues of poverty, diseases, corruption, and illiteracy. However, in Nigerian universities, the situation posits that religion is studied with theological intentions based on the curriculum bequeathed by the missionaries that laid the foundation for the academic study of religion in Nigeria leading to exclusive and reductionist approaches to its study. There is also government policy that placed emphasis on science and management courses for development. The situation has led to reduction in students＇ enrolments for the study of religion in Nigerian universities. Therefore, this paper seeks explanations for the non-functional design（s） of the curriculum for the academic study of religion in universities, southwest of Nigeria. Descriptive and analytic methods were adopted in the study to pursue the thesis that the academic study of religion in Nigeria should be rebranded and repackaged to respond and interrogate social challenges/problems, such as the scourge of HIV/AIDS plaguing the society thereby recreating a new social identity and relevance for its study.展开更多
文摘中国人民大学商学院贸易系副教授,博士生导师。主要社会兼职:中国流通30人论坛(G30)副秘书长、新零售50人论坛(N50)副秘书长、新服务30人论坛(NS30)理事、中国商业经济学会副会长。学术经历2002年中国人民大学产业经济专业经济学博士,2009-2010年美国加利福尼亚州立大学San Jose分校(San Jose State University)访问学者,2010-2011年担任日本关西学院大学客座教授。
文摘Social theorists have engaged religion as a social agent and submitted that it has the capacity to foster positive and negative changes in the society. Milton Yinger, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx lead the pack among other sociologists. The need to therefore interrogate religion as an agent of social engineering cannot be overemphasized normatively and functionally. One of the implications of such engagement is that religion; study and practice need to respond to issues in the society. Basic challenges facing the Nigerian nation are issues of poverty, diseases, corruption, and illiteracy. However, in Nigerian universities, the situation posits that religion is studied with theological intentions based on the curriculum bequeathed by the missionaries that laid the foundation for the academic study of religion in Nigeria leading to exclusive and reductionist approaches to its study. There is also government policy that placed emphasis on science and management courses for development. The situation has led to reduction in students＇ enrolments for the study of religion in Nigerian universities. Therefore, this paper seeks explanations for the non-functional design（s） of the curriculum for the academic study of religion in universities, southwest of Nigeria. Descriptive and analytic methods were adopted in the study to pursue the thesis that the academic study of religion in Nigeria should be rebranded and repackaged to respond and interrogate social challenges/problems, such as the scourge of HIV/AIDS plaguing the society thereby recreating a new social identity and relevance for its study.
