Who shall enter paradise? : Christian origins in Muslim northern Nigeria, ca. 1890/1975 /
Shankar, Shobana.
Who shall enter paradise? : Christian origins in Muslim northern Nigeria, ca. 1890/1975 / Shobana Shankar. - 1 online resource (xxx, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps - New African histories . - New African histories series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-198) and index.
"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 -- 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. Part I: The word travels -- Part II: Followers of the word --
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.
English.
0821445057 9780821445051
1865073 Proquest Ebook Central
1800-1999
Christianity--Nigeria, Northern.
Missions--Nigeria, Northern.
Religion and politics--Nigeria, Northern.
Christianisme--Nigeria (Nord)
Religion et politique--Nigeria (Nord)
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
Christianity
Ethnic relations
Missions
Religion
Religion and politics
Nigeria, Northern--Religion--19th century.
Nigeria, Northern--Religion--20th century.
Nigeria, Northern--Ethnic relations.
Northern Nigeria
BR1463.N5 / S33 2014
276.69/08
Who shall enter paradise? : Christian origins in Muslim northern Nigeria, ca. 1890/1975 / Shobana Shankar. - 1 online resource (xxx, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps - New African histories . - New African histories series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-198) and index.
"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 -- 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. Part I: The word travels -- Part II: Followers of the word --
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.
English.
0821445057 9780821445051
1865073 Proquest Ebook Central
1800-1999
Christianity--Nigeria, Northern.
Missions--Nigeria, Northern.
Religion and politics--Nigeria, Northern.
Christianisme--Nigeria (Nord)
Religion et politique--Nigeria (Nord)
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
Christianity
Ethnic relations
Missions
Religion
Religion and politics
Nigeria, Northern--Religion--19th century.
Nigeria, Northern--Religion--20th century.
Nigeria, Northern--Ethnic relations.
Northern Nigeria
BR1463.N5 / S33 2014
276.69/08