Entangled domains: empire, law, and religion in Northern Nigeria

Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer a provocative account of secu...

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Main Author: Akande, Rabiat (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:Cambridge studies in law and society
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Summary:Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer a provocative account of secularism as a contested yet contingent mode of governing religion and religious difference. Drawing on detailed archival research, Rabiat Akande vividly illustrates constitutional struggles triggered by the colonial state's governance of religion and interrogates the legacy of that governance agenda in the postcolonial state. This book is a novel commentary on the dynamic interplay between law, faith, identity, and power in the context of the modern state's emergence from colonial processes
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 May 2023)
Jousting for souls : indirect rule, Christian missions and the governance of religious difference -- Governing Shari'a -- The construction of minorities : late imperial secularity and the constitutional politics of decolonization -- The making of the 1958 Penal Code -- Constituting rights : Christian religious liberty in the late Colonial State -- The 1977 Constitutional Conference and beyond -- Conclusion
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 317 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009052108
DOI:10.1017/9781009052108

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