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Title Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa / edited by Benjamin F. Soares
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 308 pages)
Series Islam in Africa, 1570-3754 ; v. 6
Islam in Africa ; v. 6.
Contents Introduction: Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa / Benjamin F. Soares -- African Muslims and Christians in world history : the irrelevance of the "clash of civilizations" / John Voll -- Flesh soaked in faith : meat as a marker of the boundary between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia / Éloi Ficquet -- Missionary legacies : Muslim-Christian encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the colonial and postcolonial periods / Heather J. Sharkey -- A fifty-year Muslim conversion to Christianity : religious ambiguities and colonial boundaries in northern Nigeria, c. 1906-1963 / Shobana Shankar -- The time of conversion : Christians and Muslims among the Sereer-Safèn of Senegal, 1914-1950s / James F. Searing -- Christianity as seen by an African Muslim intellectual : Amadou Hampâté Bâ / Ralph Austen -- Fundamentalism and outreach strategies in East Africa : Christian evangelism and Muslim Daʼwa / John A. Chesworth -- In my end is my beginning : Muslim and Christian traditions at cross-purposes in contemporary Nigeria / Patrick J. Ryan -- An opportunity missed by Nigeria's Christians : the 1976-78 Sharia debate revisited / Philip Ostien -- The "Sharia factor" in Nigeria's 2003 elections / Franz Kogelmann -- From resistance to reconstruction : challenges facing Muslim-Christian relations in post-apartheid South Africa / A. Rashied Omar
Summary This timely collection offers new perspectives on Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa. Working against political and scholarly traditions that keep Muslims and Christians apart, the essays in this multidisciplinary volume locate African Muslims and Christians within a common analytical frame. In a series of historical and ethnographic case studies from across the African continent, the authors consider the multiple ways Muslims and Christians have encountered each other, borrowed or appropriated from one another, and sometimes also clashed. Contributors recast assumptions about the making and transgressing of religious boundaries, Christian-Muslim relations, and conversion. This engaging collection is a long overdue attempt to grapple with the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Islam -- Africa -- Congresses
Christianity -- Africa -- Congresses
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- Congresses
Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islam
Christentum
Interreligiöser Dialog
Godsdienstgesprekken.
Islam.
Christendom.
Islam -- Afrique -- Congrès.
Christianisme -- Afrique -- Congrès.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianisme -- Congrès.
Christianisme -- Relations -- Islam -- Congrès.
Islam -- Afrique -- Histoire -- Congrès.
Africa
Subsaharisches Afrika
Afrika.
Afrique -- Histoire religieuse -- Congrès.
Evanston <Ill., 2003>
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Soares, Benjamin F.
LC no. 2006047578
ISBN 9789047410386
9047410386
9004152644
9789004152649
1281400041
9781281400048
9786611400040
6611400044