| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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New African histories |
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New African histories series.
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| Contents |
Part I: The word travels -- "A place to lay our head": a sect of strangers, 1890/1918 -- A new "middle" class in the Muslim city, 1918/1925 -- A Christian feminist freelance: policing propaganda and piety, 1920/1935 -- Part II: Followers of the word -- Christian medical missions as Muslim charity: paternalist alliances, maternal alienation, 1928/1942 -- Joining in the melee: soldiers, youth, and rural revivalism, 1945/1950 -- Security and secrecy in the era of independence, 1950/1975 |
| Summary |
Who Shall Enter Paradise? recounts in detail the history of Christian-Muslim engagement in a core area of sub-Saharan Africa's most populous nation, home to roughly equal numbers of Christians and Muslims. It is a region today beset by religious violence, in the course of which history has often been told in overly simplified or highly partisan terms. This book reexamines conversion and religious identification not as fixed phenomena, but as experiences shaped through cross-cultural encounters, experimentation, collaboration, protest, and sympathy. Shobana Shankar relates how Christian missi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-198) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Nigeria, Northern
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Missions -- Nigeria, Northern
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Religion and politics -- Nigeria, Northern
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Christianity
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Ethnic relations
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Missions
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Religion
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Religion and politics
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| SUBJECT |
Nigeria, Northern -- Religion -- 19th century
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Nigeria, Northern -- Religion -- 20th century
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Nigeria, Northern -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Northern Nigeria
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0821445057 |
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9780821445051 |
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