Who shall enter paradise? : Christian origins in Muslim northern Nigeria, ca. 1890/1975 / Shobana Shankar.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:New African histories series.
Main Author: Shankar, Shobana
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2014.
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
Christianity > Nigeria, Northern.
Missions > Nigeria, Northern.
Religion and politics > Nigeria, Northern.
Nigeria, Northern > Religion > 19th century.
Nigeria, Northern > Religion > 20th century.
Nigeria, Northern > Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:xxx, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I: The word travels
  • "A place to lay our head": a sect of strangers, 1890/1918
  • A new "middle" class in the Muslim city, 1918/1925
  • A Christian feminist freelance: policing propaganda and piety, 1920/1935
  • Part II: Followers of the word
  • Christian medical missions as Muslim charity: paternalist alliances, maternal alienation, 1928/1942
  • Joining in the melee: soldiers, youth, and rural revivalism, 1945/1950
  • Security and secrecy in the era of independence, 1950/1975.