Who Shall Enter Paradise? Christian Origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1975.
- Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- New African Histories series .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies 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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Christianity--Nigeria, Northern. Missions--Nigeria, Northern. Religion and politics--Nigeria, Northern.