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Religion, history, and politics in Nigeria : essays in honor of Ogbu U. Kalu / edited by Chima J. Korieh and G. Ugo Nwokeji ; foreword by Obioma Nnaemeka.
Van Pelt Library BL2470.N5 R450 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Nigeria--Religion.
- Nigeria.
- Religion.
- Christianity and other religions--Nigeria.
- Religion and politics--Nigeria.
- Religion and politics.
- Christianity--Nigeria.
- Nigeria--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Kalu, Ogbu.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 282 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2005]
- Summary:
- Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria is concerned with the problematic nature of religion and politics in Nigerian history. The book provides a lively and straightforward treatment of the relationship among religion, politics, and history in Nigeria, and how it affects public life today.
- Contents:
- Christian encounter with Islam and indigenous religions. Christianity and Nigerian indigenous culture / Jude C. Aguwa
- "Making favorable impressions" : Bishop Crowther's C.M.S. Niger Mission in jihadist Nupe Emirate, 1859-1879 / F.J. Kolapo
- Bishop Crowther and Archdeacon Crowther : inter-generational challenge and opportunity in the African Christian encounter / Jehu J. Hanciles
- Missionary enterprise and sociocultural change in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria : realities, myths, and continuities, 1900-1960 / Raphael Chijioke Njoku
- American missionaries and educational development in colonial Nigeria / Michael M. Ogbeidi
- Religion and politics. Islam and politics in Nigeria : historical perspectives / Chima J. Korieh
- Politicization of religion and religionization of politics in Nigeria / Afe Adogame
- Economy, politics, and the theological enterprise in Nigeria / Chukwudi A. Njoku
- Catholic humanitarian aid and the Nigeria-Biafra civil war / Paul J. Yancho
- Gender and pastoral care. Engaging patriarchy : Pentecostal gender ideology and practices in Nigeria / Adelaide Maame Akua Boadi
- African womanist self-fashioning : Zaynab Alkali's The stillborn and Nigeria Muslim north / Hannah Ngozi Eby Chukwu
- Soul care in Nigeria : constructing Pentecostal models of pastoral care and counseling / Wilhelmina J. Kalu
- Nigerian Pentecostalism abroad. Encountering history : Christianity and identity in Nigerian diaspora churches / Edith A. Miguda
- Half a century of touching lives : Nigerian charismatic personalities and African (Ghanaian) Christianity, 1953-2003 / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
- Nigerian Pentecostal missionary enterprise in Kenya / Philomena Njeri Mwaura.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761831398
- 0761831401
- OCLC:
- 58566965
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