Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15264-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: Islam in Africa

This timely collection offers new perspectives on Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa. Working against political and scholarly traditions that keep Muslims and Christians apart, the essays in this multidisciplinary volume locate African Muslims and Christians within a common analytical frame. In a series of historical and ethnographic case studies from across the African continent, the authors consider the multiple ways Muslims and Christians have encountered each other, borrowed or appropriated from one another, and sometimes also clashed. Contributors recast assumptions about the making and transgressing of religious boundaries, Christian-Muslim relations, and conversion. This engaging collection is a long overdue attempt to grapple with the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soares, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
African Muslims and Christians in World
Flesh Soaked in Faith: Meat as a Marker of the Boundary between Christians and Muslims in Ethiopia
Missionary Legacies: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods
A Fifty-Year Muslim Conversion to Christianity: Religious Ambiguities and Colonial Boundaries in Northern Nigeria, c. 1906–1963
The Time of Conversion: Christians and Muslims among the Sereer-Safèn of Senegal, 1914–1950s
Christianity as Seen by an African Muslim Intellectual: Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Fundamentalism and Outreach Strategies in East Africa: Christian Evangelism and Muslim Da'wa
In My End Is My Beginning: Muslim and Christian Traditions at Cross-Purposes in Contemporary Nigeria
An Opportunity Missed by Nigeria’s Christians: The 1976–78 Sharia Debate Revisited
The “Sharia Factor” in Nigeria’s 2003 Elections
From Resistance to Reconstruction: Challenges Facing Muslim-Christian Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin F. Soares is a researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands. He is the author of Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town (Edinburgh/Ann Arbor: Edinburgh University Press/University of Michigan Press, 2005).