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100 1 _aShankar, Shobana.
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245 1 0 _aWho Shall Enter Paradise?
_bChristian Origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1975.
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260 _aAthens, OH :
_bOhio University Press,
_c(c)2014.
300 _a1 online resource (241 pages)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aNew African Histories series
500 _aDescription based upon print version of record.
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505 0 0 _aAcknowledgments; 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
520 0 _aWho 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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650 0 _aChristianity
_zNigeria, Northern.
650 0 _aMissions
_zNigeria, Northern.
650 0 _aReligion and politics
_zNigeria, Northern.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=909470&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell