This case study of the micro nation states in Nigeria shows that the issues involved in
interreligious dialogue cannot be analysed in isolation from other various societal variables
as some scholars have done in the past. This work demonstrates that religion and theological
studies must be rooted in interdisciplinary approach and must pay serious attention to
«contexts». These contexts - societal variables including geo-historical cultural religious
local national artistic and global factors - play an indispensable role and provide the
background for understanding interpreting and evaluating human religious expressions. Given
the complexity of these contexts the author applied the hermeneutic and interdisciplinary
approaches to translate both theological and intellectual issues on interreligious encounters
between Christianity and Muslims in Nigeria with the issues of local and national social
problems. This work opens a new dimension in the studies of interreligious relations.
