Book contents
- Crossing Religious Boundaries
- The International African Library
- Crossing Religious Boundaries
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Lyrics: Shuffering and Shmiling by Fela Kuti
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Religious Setting
- 3 Moses Is Jesus and Jesus Is Muhammad
- 4 Pentecostalizing Islam?
- 5 Reviving ‘Yoruba Religion’
- 6 Beyond Religion
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
1 - Introduction
Reforming the Study of Religious Reform
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2021
- Crossing Religious Boundaries
- The International African Library
- Crossing Religious Boundaries
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Lyrics: Shuffering and Shmiling by Fela Kuti
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Religious Setting
- 3 Moses Is Jesus and Jesus Is Muhammad
- 4 Pentecostalizing Islam?
- 5 Reviving ‘Yoruba Religion’
- 6 Beyond Religion
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
Summary
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 BoundariesIslam, Christianity, and ‘Yoruba Religion' in Lagos, Nigeria, pp. 1 - 27Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021