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UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF CHRISLAM IN LAGOS
2016
Africa - Journal of the International African Institute
This article presents an ethnographic case study of Chrislam, a series of religious movements that fuse Christian and Muslim beliefs and practices, in its socio-cultural and political-economic setting in Nigeria's former capital Lagos. In contrast to conventional approaches that study religious movements in Africa as syncretic forms of 'African Christianity' or 'African Islam', I suggest that 'syncretism' is a misleading term to describe Chrislam. In fact, Chrislam provides a rationale for
doi:10.1017/s0001972016000607
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