TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vaughan, Olufemi
AB  - '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.
DO  - 10.1215/9780822373872
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625285
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 944304957
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31749
KW  - History
KW  - Hausa–Fulani
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Nigerians
KW  - Northern Region
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Sharia
KW  - Yoruba people
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31749/1/625285.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31749/1/625285.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31749/1/625285.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36348
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham NC
PY  - 2016-12-09
SN  - 9780822373872
TI  - Religion and the Making of Nigerianull
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