Who shall enter paradise? : Christian origins in Muslim northern Nigeria, ca. 1890-1975 / Shobana Shankar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shankar, Shobana, author.

Series:

New African histories series.

New African histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Nigeria, Northern.

Christianity.

Missions--Nigeria, Northern.

Missions.

Religion and politics--Nigeria, Northern.

Religion and politics.

Nigeria, Northern--Religion--19th century.

Nigeria, Northern.

Nigeria, Northern--Religion--20th century.

Nigeria, Northern--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8214-4505-7

OCLC:

896794724