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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | International African library ;
64. |
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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,' during the course of my nine-month ethnographic field research in Lagos. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108838917 110883891X 9781108969079 1108969070 |