Religion and the Making of Nigeria / Olufemi Vaughan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaughan, Olufemi, author.

Series:

Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people

Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria's social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today's northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria's independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100276

ISBN:

9781478091172

OCLC:

944304957

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access