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Beyond Religious Tolerance - Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town (Hardcover)
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Beyond Religious Tolerance - Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town (Hardcover)
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
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A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social
and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west
Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence.
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion
has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group
identification. Based on an African case study, this book calls for
new ways of thinking about diversity that go "beyond religious
tolerance". Focusing on the predominantly Muslim Yoruba town of
Ede, the authors challenge the assumption that religious difference
automatically leads to conflict: in south-west Nigeria,
Muslims,Christians and traditionalists have co-existed largely
peacefully since the early twentieth century. In some contexts,
Ede's citizens emphasise the importance and significance of
religious difference, and the need for tolerance.But elsewhere they
refer to religious boundaries in passing, or even celebrate and
transcend religious divisions. Drawing on detailed ethnographic and
historical research, survey work, oral histories and poetry by UK-
and Nigeria- based researchers, the book examines how Ede's
citizens experience religious difference in their everyday lives.
It examines the town's royal history and relationship with the
deity Sango, its old Islamic compounds and itsChristian
institutions, as well as marriage and family life across religious
boundaries, to illustrate the multiplicity of religious practices
in the life of the town and its citizens and to suggest an
alternative approach to religious difference. Insa Nolte is Reader
in African Studies at the University of Birmingham, and Visiting
Research Professor at Osun State University, Osogbo. She is
President of the African Studies Association of the UK(2016-18) and
Principal Investigator of the ERC project "Knowing Each Other:
Everyday Religious Encounters, Social Identities and Tolerance in
Southwest Nigeria". Olukoya Ogen is Provost of Adeyemi College of
Education, Ondo; Professor of History at Osun State University,
Osogbo; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of
Birmingham. He is the Nigerian coordinator of the "Knowing Each
Other" project. Rebecca Jones is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on
the "Knowing Each Other" project. Her book, A Cultural History of
Nigerian Travel Writing, will be published by James Currey in 2017.
Nigeria: Adeyemi College Academic Press (paperback)
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