LEADER 03269nam 22004453a 450 001 9910831863803321 005 20230808210249.0 010 $a9781478091172 010 $a1478091177 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373872 035 $a(CKB)4950000000290290 035 $a(OCoLC)944304957 035 $a(ScCtBLL)1b2817e9-f4cc-45b8-a99e-61901e30b2a3 035 $a(DE-B1597)733030 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478091172 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000290290 100 $a20211214i20162017 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aReligion and the Making of Nigeria$fOlufemi Vaughan 210 1$aDurham NC :$cDuke University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 225 1 $aReligious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter one. Islam and Christianity in the making of modern Nigeria -- $tChapter two. Islam and colonial rule in northern Nigeria -- $tChapter three. Christianity and the transformation of colonial southern and northern Nigeria -- $tChapter four. The politics of religion in northern Nigeria during decolonization -- $tChapter five. Religion and the Postcolonial state -- $tChapter six. Religious revival and the state: the rise of Pentecostalism -- $tChapter seven. Expanded sharia: the northern Ummah and the fourth republic -- $tChapter eight. Expanded sharia: resistance, violence, and reconciliation -- $tChapter nine. Sharia politics, Obasanjo?s PDP federal government, and the 1999 constitution -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 410 $aReligious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People 606 $aHistory / Africa / West$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 615 7$aHistory / Africa / West 615 0$aHistory. 700 $aVaughan$b Olufemi$0893913 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831863803321 996 $aReligion and the making of Nigeria$91996871 997 $aUNINA