In God's name
Subtitle: the story of Nigeria's religious war and its brutal killings
By: Philip Oluwole Ukanah ; in colaboration with the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Oyo State Chapter
Contributors: Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria. Oyo State Chapter
Series: Divine Press best-sellers series
Publisher: Divine Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ibadan, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9789783267107
Subjects: Politics and government; Islam and politics; Violence; Relations; Christianity; Religion and politics; Terrorism; Islam; Christianity and other religions; History
Description: Over the last 30 years more than 100,000 people have been killed, more that 1000 churches plus thousand of houses, shops, small businesses, public buildings have been burned in Nigeria by Muslim extremists. This is a book that chronicles those atrocities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-376) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Religion: the world, Africa and Nigeria; title: 2. Northern Nigeria before 1914 and the advent of Islam; title: 3. The house Dan Fodio built; title: 4. The advent of Christianity in Nigeria; title: 5. The divided kingdom of the south; title: 6. A brief modern-day political history of Nigeria; title: 7. Religious wars in Nigeria; title: 8. The Bulumkutu, Jimeta & Gombe Battles of 1982, 1984, and 1985; title: 9. Maitatsine and his sect; title: 10. The OIC Crisis of 1986: in the beginning; title: 11. The Kafanchan, Mahem of Nay 6-12, 1987; title: 12. The attitude of the government and some media organizations during the Kafanchan Riot; title: 13. The Kaduna Polytechnic religious riot; title: 14. The Sharia debate of 1988; title: 15. The Katsina revolt of 1991; title: 16. The Bauchi religious conflict of 1991; title: 17. The Kano and Jalingo upheavals of 1991 & 1992; title: 18. The Zango-Kataf crisis of 1992; title: 19. The Funtua uprising of 1993; title: 20. When religious fundamentalists go mad in the North; title: 21. The God that answers by fire; title: 22. Religious crises in Nigeria: their nature, features, discernible trends and patterns; title: 23. The discernible patterns and trends in the religious crises in Nigeria between 1977 and 1993; title: 24. Arrests made during and after some religious crises; title: 25. Losses and damages during some religious crises in Nigeria; title: 26. Religious riots between 1994 and 2010; title: 27. The Jos riots: a general overview; title: 28. The return of Sharia in 1999; title: 29. The Ilorin rampage of 1999; title: 30. Lessons from Sudan, Pakistan and Lebanon for Nigeria; title: 31. The riot over Miss World Pageant in Kaduna and Bauchi; title: 32. The Adamawa carnage; title: 33. Good news in the desert: Jesus among Jihadists; title: 34. The 2007 religious attacks; title: 35. February 2008 Bauchi ethno-religious conflict; title: 36. The Boko Haram war of 2009; title: 37. The Talibans, Kala-Kato and Boko Haram; title: 38. Pasto George Orji: the story of a modern-day Stephen and martyrdom; title: 39. Extra-judicial killings during the Boko Haram riots; title: 40. The Jos wars of 2001, 2008, 2009, and 2010; title: 41. The 2008 Jos carnage; title: 42. The 2010 Jos pogrom; title: 43. The Hausa-Fulani reprisal attacks on three Jos South villages; title: 44. The arrest and confessions of the Night Marauders; title: 45. Nigeria and the paradox of the Levite and his concubine; title: 46. The mentality of Islamic fundamentalists; title: 47. The effects and consequences of religious crisis; title: 48. Understanding the nomadic Fulani pastoralist and his Hausa counterpart, the nomadic Hausa-Fulani; title: 49. The casualty of fatality figures in religious crises; title: 50. Religious crises: the victims, the attackers; title: 51. So, will Nigeria break?; title: 52. Some causes of religious crisis; title: 53. Letter to the reader.