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Who Shall Enter Paradise? [electronic resource] : Christian Origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1975.

By: Series: New African histories seriesPublication details: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780821445051
  • 0821445057
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Who Shall Enter Paradise? : Christian Origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1975DDC classification:
  • 276.6908 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1463.N5
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: "A Place to Lay Our Head"; 2: A New "Middle" Class in the Muslim City, 1918-1925; 3: A Christian Feminist Freelance; 4: Christian Medical Missions as Muslim Charity; 5: Joining in the Melee; 6: Security and Secrecy in the Era of Independence, 1950-1975; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: "A Place to Lay Our Head"; 2: A New "Middle" Class in the Muslim City, 1918-1925; 3: A Christian Feminist Freelance; 4: Christian Medical Missions as Muslim Charity; 5: Joining in the Melee; 6: Security and Secrecy in the Era of Independence, 1950-1975; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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.

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