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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0022-4200
- eISSN
- 1570-0666
- DOI
- 10.1163/157006608X262746
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
88 Book Reviews / Journal of Religion in Africa 38 (2008) 81-99 Korieh, Chima J., and G. Ugo Nwokeji (eds.), Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Ogbu U. Kalu , Lanham, University Press of America, 2005, 282 pp., 0 7618 3140 1, £63.18. Th e editors of this volume, in their introduction, set themselves the following tasks: to establish the factors that determined and directed the struggle between Islam and Christi- anity on one side and the Indigenous Religions on the other in capturing the African moral terrain; to examine the relationship between Christianity as an agent of change and as, simultaneously, an agent of continuity of expression of African values and ideals; to explore the roles of Christianity in providing education for evangelization and for fostering state/ church relationships; to determine what Nigerian Christianity has given to the Christian world in return for what it has received from it; to investigate what factors guided and informed the often inharmonious relationship between religion and politics; and to exam- ine what have been the roles of Christianity and Islam in weakening or strengthening the male dominance that has been part of the African cultural heritage.
Journal
Journal of Religion in Africa – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2008