Crossing religious boundaries: Islam, Christianity and 'Yoruba religion' in Lagos, Nigeria
"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 thre...
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| Language: | English |
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London
International African Institute
2021
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021 |
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International African library (64)
Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | International African library
64 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lagos
/ Christianity
/ Islam
/ Folk religion
/ Syncretism
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations AZ New religious movements KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Pluralism (Nigeria) (Lagos)
B Lagos (Nigeria) Religion |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 110883891X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 200.9669/1-dc23 |