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

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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 ofte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shankar, Shobana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2014.
Colección:New African histories series.
Temas:
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxx, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-198) and index.
ISBN:0821445057
9780821445051

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