UID:
almafu_9960800099002883
Format:
1 online resource (241 p.)
ISBN:
0-8214-4505-7
Series Statement:
New African histories
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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"A place to lay our head": a sect of strangers, 1890/1918 --
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A new "middle" class in the Muslim city, 1918/1925 --
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A Christian feminist freelance: policing propaganda and piety, 1920/1935 --
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Christian medical missions as Muslim charity: paternalist alliances, maternal alienation, 1928/1942 --
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Joining in the melee: soldiers, youth, and rural revivalism, 1945/1950 --
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Security and secrecy in the era of independence, 1950/1975.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8214-2123-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
