ISBN:
9781009062213
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (338 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Series
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DDC:
306.609669
Keywords:
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Abstract:
This book provides the first account of the sustained entanglement of law, religion, and empire in Northern Nigeria.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terms -- Introduction -- Governing Difference: Colonialism and Religion in Nigeria -- Defining, Deepening, and Hierarchizing Religious Difference -- Secularism's Entanglements -- Navigating State-Religion Entanglements -- The Early Colonial Years -- The Cameron Era -- Postcolonial Contestations -- Continuing Entanglements -- Inheriting an Imagined Past -- Part I Governing Faith -- 1 Jousting for Souls: Indirect Rule, Christian Missions, and the Governance of Religious Difference -- The Encounter of Imperial Ambitions with the Missionary Project -- Secularism, Missionizing, and Late Liberal Imperialism -- Governing Religious Difference: Colonial Indirect Rule in Northern Nigeria -- The Practice of Imperial Secularism -- Lugard's Years of Authority -- Lugardians and the Missionary Encounter -- The Cameron Years -- Conclusion -- 2 Governing Shariʿa -- The Caliphal Alliance -- Shari.a Governance: Siyasa and the Making of a British Colonial Islamic Law -- Disaggregating the Colonial State -- Lugardian Phase (1900-1930) -- Expanding Siyasa -- Reorganizing the Judiciary -- Judicial Reorganization: Jurisdiction over Non-Muslims -- Substantive Reforms -- Cameron Phase (1931-1958) -- Judicial Reorganization: Siyasa Recalibration -- Judicial Reorganization: Jurisdiction over Non-Muslims -- Judicial Reforms -- Appellate Process in a System of Multiple Courts -- Conclusion -- Part II Constituting Difference -- 3 The Construction of Minorities: Late Imperial Secularity and the Constitutional Politics of Decolonization -- Religion Differentiation and Nationalist Politics in the Late Colonial Years -- The United Middle Belt Congress: Ecumenism, Self-Determination, and the Making of "Religious Minorities".
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