Religion and the making of Nigeria / / Olufemi Vaughan

• Autore: Vaughan Olufemi
• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 pages)
• Disciplina: 322/.109669
• Soggetto topico: Religion and state - Nigeria; Church and state - Nigeria - History; Islam and state - Nigeria - History; Political culture - Nigeria - Religious aspects
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Islam and Christianity in the making of modern Nigeria -- Islam and colonial rule in northern Nigeria -- Christianity and the transformation of colonial southern and northern Nigeria -- The politics of religion in northern Nigeria during decolonization -- Religion and the postcolonial state -- Religious revival and the state : the rise of pentecostalism -- Expanded Sharia : the northern Ummah and the fourth republic -- Expanded Sharia : resistance, violence, and reconciliation -- Sharia politics, Obasanjo's PDP federal government, and the 1999 constitution.
• Sommario/riassunto: '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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Religion and the making of Nigeria
• ISBN: 9780822373872; 0822373874; 9780822362067; 0822362066; 9780822362272; 0822362279
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150197703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.