CROSSING RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES ISLAM,CHRISTIANITY AND YORUBA RELIGION' IN LAGOS NIGERIA
JANSON, MARLOES
CROSSING RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES ISLAM,CHRISTIANITY AND YORUBA RELIGION' IN LAGOS NIGERIA MARLOES JANSON,SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - pages cm. - The international African library .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Reforming the study of religious reform -- The religious setting : Muslim-Christian encounters in Nigeria -- Moses is Jesus and Jesus is Muhammad : the Chrislam movement -- Pentecostalizing Islam? : Nasrul-Lahi-il Fatih Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) -- Reviving 'Yoruba religion' : the Indigenous Faith of Africa (IFA), Ijo Orunmila Ato -- Beyond religion : the Grail Movement and Eckankar -- Conclusion: Towards a new framework for the study of religious pluralism.
"Welcome to Lagos; here everything is possible' were the words with which my research collaborator Dr Mustapha Bello greeted me when I first arrived in Nigeria's former capital in 2010. That 'everything is possible' in this megacity, I soon discovered when we drove by a three-storey building that, as Mustapha pointed out to me, hosted a mainline church, a Pentecostal church, and a mosque. Although he described himself as a 'die-hard Muslim', Mustapha did not seem to have any problem with a mosque sharing the same space with a church. Underlining the pragmatism that characterizes Lagosians, he argued that this was an 'economic use of space'. While in this particular building different religious institutions occupied different floors, I also came across movements mixing Islam and Christianity, sometimes in interaction with 'Yoruba religion',1 during the course of my nine-month ethnographic field research in Lagos"-- "Welcome to Lagos; here everything is possible' were the words with which my research collaborator Dr Mustapha Bello greeted me when I first arrived in Nigeria's former capital in 2010. That 'everything is possible' in this megacity, I soon discovered when we drove by a three-storey building that, as Mustapha pointed out to me, hosted a mainline church, a Pentecostal church, and a mosque. Although he described himself as a 'die-hard Muslim', Mustapha did not seem to have any problem with a mosque sharing the same space with a church. Underlining the pragmatism that characterizes Lagosians, he argued that this was an 'economic use of space'. While in this particular building different religious institutions occupied different floors, I also came across movements mixing Islam and Christianity, sometimes in interaction with 'Yoruba religion',1 during the course of my nine-month ethnographic field research in Lagos"--
9781108838917 9781108969079
2020055275
Religious pluralism--Nigeria--Lagos.
Lagos (Nigeria)--Religion.
BL2470.N5 / J36 2021
200.966 91 JAN
CROSSING RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES ISLAM,CHRISTIANITY AND YORUBA RELIGION' IN LAGOS NIGERIA MARLOES JANSON,SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - pages cm. - The international African library .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Reforming the study of religious reform -- The religious setting : Muslim-Christian encounters in Nigeria -- Moses is Jesus and Jesus is Muhammad : the Chrislam movement -- Pentecostalizing Islam? : Nasrul-Lahi-il Fatih Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) -- Reviving 'Yoruba religion' : the Indigenous Faith of Africa (IFA), Ijo Orunmila Ato -- Beyond religion : the Grail Movement and Eckankar -- Conclusion: Towards a new framework for the study of religious pluralism.
"Welcome to Lagos; here everything is possible' were the words with which my research collaborator Dr Mustapha Bello greeted me when I first arrived in Nigeria's former capital in 2010. That 'everything is possible' in this megacity, I soon discovered when we drove by a three-storey building that, as Mustapha pointed out to me, hosted a mainline church, a Pentecostal church, and a mosque. Although he described himself as a 'die-hard Muslim', Mustapha did not seem to have any problem with a mosque sharing the same space with a church. Underlining the pragmatism that characterizes Lagosians, he argued that this was an 'economic use of space'. While in this particular building different religious institutions occupied different floors, I also came across movements mixing Islam and Christianity, sometimes in interaction with 'Yoruba religion',1 during the course of my nine-month ethnographic field research in Lagos"-- "Welcome to Lagos; here everything is possible' were the words with which my research collaborator Dr Mustapha Bello greeted me when I first arrived in Nigeria's former capital in 2010. That 'everything is possible' in this megacity, I soon discovered when we drove by a three-storey building that, as Mustapha pointed out to me, hosted a mainline church, a Pentecostal church, and a mosque. Although he described himself as a 'die-hard Muslim', Mustapha did not seem to have any problem with a mosque sharing the same space with a church. Underlining the pragmatism that characterizes Lagosians, he argued that this was an 'economic use of space'. While in this particular building different religious institutions occupied different floors, I also came across movements mixing Islam and Christianity, sometimes in interaction with 'Yoruba religion',1 during the course of my nine-month ethnographic field research in Lagos"--
9781108838917 9781108969079
2020055275
Religious pluralism--Nigeria--Lagos.
Lagos (Nigeria)--Religion.
BL2470.N5 / J36 2021
200.966 91 JAN