Religion and the Making of Nigeria
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Religion and the Making of Nigeria

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Religion and the Making of Nigeria

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. One. Islam and Christianity in the Making of Modern Nigeria
  6. Two. Islam and Colonial Rule in Northern Nigeria
  7. Three. Christianity and the Transformation of Colonial Southern and Northern Nigeria
  8. Four. The Politics of Religion in Northern Nigeria during Decolonization
  9. Five. Religion and the Postcolonial State
  10. Six. Religious Revival and the State: The Rise of Pentecostalism
  11. Seven. Expanded Sharia: The Northern Ummah and the Fourth Republic
  12. Eight. Expanded Sharia: Resistance, Violence, and Reconciliation
  13. Nine. Sharia Politics, Obasanjo’s PDP Federal Government, and the 1999 Constitution
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index