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

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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.