TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shankar,Shobana
TI  - Who Shall Enter Paradise?: Christian Origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1975
T2  - New African Histories series
SN  - 9780821445051
AV  - BR1463.N5 
U1  - 276.6908 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Athens, OH
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Nigeria, Northern
KW  - Missions
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religion
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 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
N2  - 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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