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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 153–175PDF of "We Are All Infidels": Discursive De-Othering And The Politics Of Religious Identity In Nigeria

   "We Are All Infidels": Discursive De-Othering And The Politics Of Religious Identity In Nigeria

   Chinaguh, Emmanuel C.

   belonging can reinforce social boundaries and polarisation. This study examines how the category infidel functions as religious othering and how its contestation reconfigures identity and belonging in Nigerian political discourse … three interconnected processes: religious othering, discursive de-othering, and identity/belonging reconfiguration. Findings show that infidel initially constructed a religious Other that established a hierarchy of membership categories, but its meaning