Marloes Janson

Crossing Religious Boundaries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A rich ethnography of religions, religious pluralism and practice in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, and of lived experiences within Islam, Christianity, and 'Yoruba religion'.

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Produktdetails

• The International African Library
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781108969079
• ISBN-10: 1108969070
• Artikelnr.: 66896113

Autorenporträt

Marloes Janson is Professor of West African Anthropology and Associate Director of Research at SOAS University of London, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her work lies at the intersection of anthropology and religion, focusing on Nigeria and the Gambia. She is the author of Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jamäat (2013) which received the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology in 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Reforming the Study of Religious Reform
2. The Religious Setting: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Nigeria
3. Moses is Jesus and Jesus is Muhammad: The Chrislam Movement
4. Pentecostalizing Islam?: Nasrul-Lahi-il Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT)
5. Reviving 'Yoruba Religion': The Indigenous Faith of Africa (IFA), Ijo Orunmila Ato
6. Beyond Religion: The Grail Movement and Eckankar
7. Conclusion: Towards a New Framework for the Study of Religious Pluralism.