TY  - GEN
AU  - Vaughan,Olufemi
TI  - Religion and the Making of Nigeria
SN  - 9780822373872
PY  - 2016///1209
CY  - Durham NC
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - African history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - Hausa–Fulani
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Nigerians
KW  - Northern Region
KW  - Sharia
KW  - Yoruba people
N1  - Open Access
N2  - '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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31749/1/625285.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31749/1/625285.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31749/1/625285.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36348
ER  -