Entangled Domains

Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Rabiat Akande, Toronto) Akande, Rabiat (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-01-23
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor336
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009055048

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Introduction; Part I. Governing Faith: 1. Jousting for souls: indirect rule, Christian missions and the governance of religious difference; 2. Governing Shari'a; Part II. Constituting Difference: 3. The construction of minorities: late imperial secularity and the constitutional politics of decolonization; 4. The making of the 1958 Penal Code; 5. Constituting rights: Christian religious liberty in the late colonial state; Part III. Imagining the Past: 6. The 1977 Constitutional Conference and beyond; Conclusion.

'With the shift away from sponsoring Christian missionary projects, the British empire turned to indirect rule with secularist features. In this enterprising history of law and politics in northern Nigeria between past and present, Rabiat Akande illuminates how such secularism intruded on religious and social identity and reshaped it, with profound legacies for the constitutionalism that followed in the postcolony. This is an extremely impressive achievement.' Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School