ABSTRACT
Reflecting on religion and human security in Mozambique, this chapter, a broad brush based on a critical field opinion survey, builds on the existing literature and adopts a multidisciplinary approach. It prioritises the weak and voiceless by making their life histories central to the analysis. The chapter shows that religious ideology is both a powerful and versatile political force that can be adopted and adapted by different people for contradictory causes. The extent to which religion can play a positive or negative role in society is contingent upon many factors and cannot be ascertained a priori. The chapter concludes that the implications of increased religious revivalism for war and peace in Africa are at best ambiguous, and at worst catastrophic.
