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Title: | Politics and religion in Yorubaland: a case study of Ile-Ife, c. 1850 - c. 1930 |
Author: | Adediran, Biodun |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | Afrika Zamani: revue d'histoire africaine |
Issue: | 16-17 |
Period: | February |
Pages: | 129-144 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | Church and State history Ife polity colonialism History and Exploration Politics and Government Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | While there were serious challenges by individuals to traditional authorities in Ile-Ife in the latter part of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth century, the conflict between traditional religionists and adherents of Islam and Christianity was subtle, primarily because the resistance of traditional religionists to the new religions was more passive than active. The author discusses the problems which both Muslim and Christian clerics faced in getting their respective religions established in the town. He suggests that contrary to the impression that Ife for long remained impervious to foreign religious influences because of 'the strength of idolatory', the failure of either Islam or Christianity to have a firm grip on the town was due primarily to the nature of Ife politics in which both Muslim and Christian adherents became intricately involved to the detriment of the ideas which they tried to propagate. Notes, ref. |