1. History, Culture, and the Comparative Method: A West African Puzzle

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Abbreviations Appearing in the Text and Notes ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I
7. 1. History, Culture, and the Comparative Method: A West African Puzzle 17
8. 2. Two Pastors and Their Histories: Samuel Johnson and C. C. Reindorf 38
9. 3. Ogun in Precolonial Yorubaland: A Comparative Analysis 52
10. 4. Divergent Modes of Religiosity in West Africa 71
11. 5. Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Pentecostalism 88
12. Part II
13. 6. Context, Tradition, and the Anthropology of World Religions 105
14. 7. Conversion and Community in Yorubaland 125
15. 8. Yoruba Ethnogenesis and the Trajectory of Islam 150
16. 9. A Century of Interplay Between Islam and Christianity 172
17. 10. Pentecostalism and Salafism in Nigeria: Mirror Images? 192
18. 11. The Three Circles of Yoruba Religion 214
19. Glossary of Yoruba and Arabic Terms Appearing in the Text and Notes 233
20. Notes 235
21. Index 289