Religion in Calabar
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Religion in Calabar

The Religious Life and History of a Nigerian Town

  1. 499 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Religion in Calabar

The Religious Life and History of a Nigerian Town

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110114812
eBook ISBN
9783110846737
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Part One: Historical Ethnography
  4. Chapter One: Old Calabar
  5. 1.1 Background to Calabar
  6. 1.2 Traditional religion
  7. Chapter Two: Missionary Beginnings
  8. 2.1 Introduction
  9. 2.2 Early Christian contacts
  10. 2.3 Early religious pluralization
  11. 2.4 Roman Catholic Mission
  12. 2.5 Wesleyan Methodists
  13. 2.6 Lutheran Church
  14. 2.7 Qua Iboe Mission
  15. 2.8 Presbyterian developments
  16. Chapter Three: Religious Pluralization
  17. 3.1 Introduction
  18. 3.2 The heyday of Calabar: 1910-1929
  19. 3.3 The witchcraft scare: 1930-39
  20. 3.4 World War II and its effect on Calabar: 1940-1949
  21. 3.5 Political independence approaches: 1950-1959
  22. 3.6 Independence and civil war: 1960-1969
  23. 3.7 The post-civil war revival: 1970-1974
  24. 3.8 The “oil boom” churches: 1975-1979
  25. 3.9 Concluding remarks
  26. Part Two: Contemporary Religion
  27. Chapter Four: Non-Indigenous and Institutional Religion
  28. 4.1 Introduction
  29. 4.2 From mission to mainline churches - and after
  30. 4.3 Islam
  31. 4.4 Exogenous religious institutions
  32. Chapter Five: Indigenous and Institutional Religion
  33. 5.1 Introduction
  34. 5.2 Traditional religion
  35. 5.3 Spiritual self-determination - the hallmark of the new churches
  36. 5.4 New trends and developments
  37. 5.5 Concluding remarks
  38. Chapter Six: Institutional Distribution
  39. 6.1 The religious mapping of Calabar
  40. 6.2 Concluding remarks
  41. Chapter Seven: Institutional Interaction
  42. 7.1 Interaction and interdependence
  43. 7.2 Conferences, councils and chaplaincies
  44. 7.3 Non-denominational revivals and crusades
  45. 7.4 The Bible and music as common denominators
  46. 7.5 Civic interaction
  47. 7.6 Negotiations and affiliations
  48. 7.7 Negative interaction
  49. 7.8 Concluding remarks
  50. Chapter Eight: Popular Religion
  51. 8.1 Introduction
  52. 8.2 The human condition
  53. 8.3 “Why die in silence?”
  54. 8.4 Power and protection
  55. 8.5 Festivals
  56. 8.6 Freelance evangelism
  57. 8.7 Music
  58. 8.8 Spiritual experience
  59. 8.9 Names and mottoes
  60. 8.10 A kaleidoscope of religious activity
  61. Chapter Nine: Religion in the Media
  62. 9.1 Introduction
  63. 9.2 Newspaper religion
  64. 9.3 Television religion
  65. 9.4 Radio religion
  66. 9.5 Concluding remarks
  67. Chapter Ten: Unity in Diversity: Themes and Developments in Calabar Religion
  68. 10.1 Introduction
  69. 10.2 Religion as transformative power
  70. 10.3 Religion as sustaining force
  71. 10.4 Spiritualization
  72. 10.5 Institutionalization
  73. 10.6 Secularization
  74. 10.7 Privatization
  75. 10.8 Religious self-determination
  76. 10.9 Homogenization
  77. 10.10 Religious conversion and mobility
  78. Conclusion
  79. Appendix 1: Methods
  80. Appendix 2: Chronology
  81. Appendix 3: Data File on the Religious Institutions of Calabar
  82. Bibliography
  83. Primary Sources
  84. Books and Articles Relating to Calabar
  85. Comparative and Theoretical Works
  86. Index