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100 1 _aJANSON, MARLOES
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCROSSING RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES
_bISLAM,CHRISTIANITY AND YORUBA RELIGION' IN LAGOS NIGERIA
_cMARLOES JANSON,SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
263 _a2105
264 1 _aCAMBRIDGE;
_aNEW YORK:
_bCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
_c2021.
300 _apages cm.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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490 0 _aThe international African library
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aReligious pluralism
_zNigeria
_zLagos.
651 0 _aLagos (Nigeria)
_xReligion.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aJanson, Marloes.
_tCrossing religious boundaries
_dCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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