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Religion and the Making of Nigeria (Hardcover)
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Religion and the Making of Nigeria (Hardcover)
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
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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.
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.
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