Author: John Nalami Hassan Ikara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789785788815
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Author: Thaddeus Byimui Umaru
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483672883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Religion as a powerful impulse in human existence plays a paradoxical role in society as it both contributes significantly in shaping the spiritual, socio-political and economic lives of millions of people and also acts as a source of conflict. The sad experience of interreligious conflict in Northern Nigeria challenges the claim of Islam and Christianity to be religions of peace. However, understood as closely intertwined with culture and custom of a people, religion can be central in the establishment of peace and conflict resolution in and between communities. This text using the model of dialogue (Nostra Aetate) explores and presents the socio-political and theological resources available in Northern Nigeria (the locality) for a consistent peace building process.

Author: A. Akinade
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137430079
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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This book examines the various Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria. It is a study of the complex, interreligious relationships in Nigeria. Using a polymethodic approach, the book grapples with many narratives dealing with interreligious competition and cooperation in Nigeria.

Author: Victor Chukwulozie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Author: E. O. Babalola
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Edmund Emeka Ezegbobelu
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783631589939
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)-Univ. Frankfurt (Main), 2009.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Christian Mission and Islamic Da'wah

Author: International Association for the History of Religions. Congress
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825866693
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Edmund Patrick Thurman Crampton
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: Shobana Shankar
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Who Shall Enter Paradise? recounts in detail the history of Christian-Muslim engagement in a core area of sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous nation, home to roughly equal numbers of Christians and Muslims. It is a region today beset by religious violence, in the course of which history has often been told in overly simplified or highly partisan terms. This book reexamines conversion and religious identification not as fixed phenomena, but as experiences shaped through cross-cultural encounters, experimentation, collaboration, protest, and sympathy. Shobana Shankar relates how Christian missions and African converts transformed religious practices and politics in Muslim Northern Nigeria during the colonial and early postcolonial periods. Although the British colonial authorities prohibited Christian evangelism in Muslim areas and circumscribed missionary activities, a combination of factors—including Mahdist insurrection, the abolition of slavery, migrant labor, and women’s evangelism—brought new converts to the faith. By the 1930s, however, this organic growth of Christianity in the north had given way to an institutionalized culture based around medical facilities established in the Hausa emirates. The end of World War II brought an influx of demobilized soldiers, who integrated themselves into the local Christian communities and reinvigorated the practice of lay evangelism. In the era of independence, Muslim politicians consolidated their power by adopting many of the methods of missionaries and evangelists. In the process, many Christian men and formerly non-Muslim communities converted to Islam. A vital part of Northern Nigerian Christianity all but vanished, becoming a religion of “outsiders.”