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      • Rabiat Akande, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2023
      June 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009052108
      9781316511558
      9781009055048
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009052108
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 338 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 338 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Constitutional and Administrative Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Law
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Subjects:
    Constitutional and Administrative Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Law
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer a provocative account of secularism as a contested yet contingent mode of governing religion and religious difference. Drawing on detailed archival research, Rabiat Akande vividly illustrates constitutional struggles triggered by the colonial state's governance of religion and interrogates the legacy of that governance agenda in the postcolonial state. This book is a novel commentary on the dynamic interplay between law, faith, identity, and power in the context of the modern state's emergence from colonial processes.

    Awards

    Honorable Mention, 2023 W. Wesley Pue Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association

    Honorable Mention, 2024 Book Prize, International Society of Public Law

    Honorable Mention, 2024 ICONS Annual Book Prize, International Society for Public Law

    Finalist, 2024 Best Book Prize, African Studies Association

    Reviews

    ‘With the shift away from sponsoring Christian missionary projects, the British empire turned to indirect rule with secularist features. In this enterprising history of law and politics in northern Nigeria between past and present, Rabiat Akande illuminates how such secularism intruded on religious and social identity and reshaped it, with profound legacies for the constitutionalism that followed in the postcolony. This is an extremely impressive achievement.’

    Samuel Moyn - Yale Law School

    ‘Discussions of secularism often descend into arguments ‘for’ or ‘against’ secularism. Not so for Rabiat Akande’s study of the entanglements of law, religion, and empire in colonial Northern Nigeria and its postcolonial epilogue. Emphasizing the ambivalences of secular governance, Akande explores the unexpected expressions of the state’s colonial and postcolonial claims to secularity. An important contribution to the globalization of critical secularism studies.’

    Elizabeth Shakman Hurd - Northwestern University

    ‘Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, Akande confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multi-religious population through what remained of the pre-colonial caliphate. Secularism emerges as a contested yet contingent mode of governing religion and religious difference.’

    Howard S. Erlanger Source: Law & Social Inquiry

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    • Introduction
      pp 1-28
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