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Reforming the Study of Religious Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2021

Marloes Janson
Affiliation:
SOAS University of London
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Highlighting that in practice the boundaries between religious traditions are not as sharply demarcated as depicted in the media and academic literature, many of the Lagosians whom I interviewed described themselves as ‘religious shoppers’ who had changed their religious allegiances or shifted between them. Chapter 1 analyses religious shopping against the backdrop of entrenched depictions of Lagos as an ‘apocalyptic megacity’. Itsmain argument is that in order to fully understand how religion is practised in a multi-faith setting such as Lagos, we must tackle the compartmentalization of the study of religion by taking religious pluralism – as manifested in the practice of religious shopping – as our starting point. This entails that we approach religion first and foremost as lived practice and experimental mixing.

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Crossing Religious Boundaries
Islam, Christianity, and ‘Yoruba Religion' in Lagos, Nigeria
, pp. 1 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Introduction
  • Marloes Janson
  • Book: Crossing Religious Boundaries
  • Online publication: 16 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108979160.002
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  • Introduction
  • Marloes Janson
  • Book: Crossing Religious Boundaries
  • Online publication: 16 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108979160.002
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  • Introduction
  • Marloes Janson
  • Book: Crossing Religious Boundaries
  • Online publication: 16 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108979160.002
Available formats
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