Crossing Religious Boundaries - Janson, Marloes

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Résumé :
Religious pluralism, as encountered in multi-faith settings such as Nigeria's biggest city Lagos, challenges much of what we have long taken for granted about religion, including the ready-made binaries of Christianity versus Islam, religion versus secularism, religious monism versus polytheism, and tradition versus modernity. In this book, Marloes Janson offers a rich ethnography of religions, religious pluralism and practice in Lagos, analysing how so-called 'religious shoppers' cross religious boundaries, and the coexistence of different religious traditions where practitioners engage with these simultaneously. Prompted to develop a broader conception of religion that shifts from a narrow analysis of religious traditions as mutually exclusive, Janson instead offers a perspective that focuses on the complex dynamics of their actual entanglements. Including real-life examples to illustrate religion in Lagos through religious practice and lived experiences, this study takes account of the ambivalence, inconsistency and unpredictability of lived religion, proposing assemblage as an analytical frame for exploring the conceptual and methodological possibilities that may open as a result....

Biographie:
Marloes Janson is Professor of West African Anthropology and Associate Director of Research at SOAS University of London, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her work lies at the intersection of anthropology and religion, focusing on Nigeria and the Gambia. She is the author of Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jam?at (2013) which received the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology in 2014.

Sommaire:
1. Introduction: Reforming the Study of Religious Reform; 2. The Religious Setting: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Nigeria; 3. Moses is Jesus and Jesus is Muhammad: The Chrislam Movement; 4. Pentecostalizing Islam?: Nasrul-Lahi-il Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT); 5. Reviving 'Yoruba Religion': The Indigenous Faith of Africa (IFA), Ijo Orunmila Ato; 6. Beyond Religion: The Grail Movement and Eckankar; 7. Conclusion: Towards a New Framework for the Study of Religious Pluralism.