Religion and politics in the contemporary Kenya
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2012-08-09Author
Akuloba, Abwire
Gumo, Sussy
Omare, Simon G
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The term church refers to a group of people governed by similar rules and beliefs,
who congregate in recognition of a higher Being. In most cases the term church and religion
are used synonymously. While religions is domesticated by morals that are illuminated by
faith, most states are guided by politics whose orientation is generally practical empirical. In
most cases the church. Politics on the other hand is given different definitions by different
people. On one popular understanding, politics is concerned with the allocation of values in
any social system. In Kenya as it is the case with most African countries, ethnicity has been
and still remains the strongest force that binds a group together because other bases of
alignment such as: religion, class, nationalism etc, are recent phenomena and in most cases
alien. As it has been observed critically by the author, politics in Kenya are ethno-centric …