Faith, Survival and the Torn Fabric: Religious Coping Search for Moral Reconstruction

Faith, Survival & the Torn Fabric explores the complex relationship between faith, survival, morality, and national renewal in Nigeria. The book examines how ordinary Nigerians respond to poverty, sickness, unemployment, insecurity, and institutional weakness, particularly through prayer, healing ministries, prosperity practices, prophetic traditions, and indigenous spiritual resources.The second part, The Torn Fabric, looks beyond individual survival to the deeper challenges facing the nation. Through the powerful images of a torn fabric and a knocked engine, the author examines corruption, weakened national character, civic fragmentation, poor leadership, institutional failure, and the erosion of public trust.Rather than offering easy political answers, this work calls for spiritual revival, moral and civic education, responsible leadership, justice, effective institutions, productivity, and human dignity. It presents a realistic vision of renewal built on character, responsibility, and shared national purpose.A thoughtful and timely book for readers interested in Nigerian Christianity, African theology, faith and society, moral leadership, civic responsibility, and the future of Nigeria. At its heart is a message of hope: a wounded nation does not have to remain broken, and the torn fabric can still be rewoven.