TY - BOOK AU - Vaughan, Olufemi AB - 'In Religion and the Making of Nigeria', Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. DO - 10.1215/9780822373872 ID - OAPEN ID: 625285 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 944304957 KW - History KW - Hausa–Fulani KW - Muslims KW - Nigeria KW - Nigerians KW - Northern Region KW - Nigeria KW - Sharia KW - Yoruba people L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0d9a7729-c2f6-46d7-a5b3-244fb88ccbe0/625285.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31749 PB - Duke University Press PP - Durham NC PY - 2016-12-09 SN - 9780822373872 TI - Religion and the Making of Nigerianull ER -