Who shall enter paradise?
Subtitle: Christian origins in Muslim northern Nigeria, ca. 1890-1975
By: Shobana Shankar
Series: New African histories; New African histories series
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780821421239; 9780821421246; 9780821445051
Subjects: Christianity; Missions; Religion and politics; Religion; Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The word travels; title: "A place to lay our head": a sect of strangers, 1890/1918 --; title: A new "middle" class in the Muslim city, 1918/1925 --; title: A Christian feminist freelance: policing propaganda and piety, 1920/1935 -- -- Part II: Followers of the word; title: Christian medical missions as Muslim charity: paternalist alliances, maternal alienation, 1928/1942 --; title: Joining in the melee: soldiers, youth, and rural revivalism, 1945/1950 --; title: Security and secrecy in the era of independence, 1950/1975.