Beyond Religious Tolerance
Beyond Religious Tolerance Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Focusing on the…
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Beyond Religious Tolerance
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Focusing on the predominantly Muslim Yoruba town of Ede, the authors challenge the assumption that religious difference automatically leads to conflict: in south-west Nigeria, Muslims, Christians and traditionalists have co-existed largely peacefully since the early twentieth century. Based on an African case study, this book calls for new ways of thinking about diversity that go "beyond religious tolerance".
But elsewhere they refer to religious boundaries in passing, or even celebrate and transcend religious divisions.Drawing on detailed ethnographic and historical research, survey work, oral histories and In some contexts, Ede's citizens emphasise the importance and significance of religious difference, and the need for tolerance.