Olufemi Vaughan

Religion and the Making of Nigeria

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Produktbeschreibung

In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria's social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today's northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria's independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362272
• ISBN-10: 0822362279
• Artikelnr.: 44602698

Autorenporträt

Olufemi Vaughan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Islam and Christianity in the Making of Modern Nigeria  13
2. Islam and Colonial Rule in Northern Nigeria  39
3. Christianity and the Transformation of Colonial Southern and Northern
Nigeria  69
4. The Politics of Religion in Northern Nigeria during Decolonization  89
5. Religion and the Postcolonial State  112
6. Religious Revival and the State: The Rise of Pentacostalism  139
7. Expanded Sharia: The Northern Ummah and the Fourth Republic  158
8. Expanded Sharia: Resistance, Violence, and Reconciliation  181
9. Sharia Politics, Obasanjo's PNP Federal Government, and the 1999
Constitution  199
Conclusion  223
Bibliography  273
Index  295