TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shankar,Shobana
TI  - Who shall enter paradise?: Christian origins in Muslim northern Nigeria, ca. 1890/1975 
T2  - New African histories
SN  - 0821445057
AV  - BR1463.N5 S33 2014
U1  - 276.69/08 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Nigeria, Northern
KW  - Missions
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Nigeria (Nord)
KW  - Religion et politique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Religion
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Northern Nigeria
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-198) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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