Crossing religious boundaries: Islam, Christian, and ‘Yoruba religion’ in Lagos, Nigeria
这是一项关于尼日利亚拉各斯城市宗教共存的人类学研究，探讨基督教、伊斯兰教与约鲁巴宗教之间的相互借鉴与边界跨越，适合对宗教多元主义、城市民族志感兴趣的学者。
This book is a novel endeavour in a number of respects. It is an urban ethnographic study of religions and religious co-existence in Lagos, a place that identifies as Africa’s most populous city, also as the commercial hub of Nigeria’s southwestern region (Yorubaland) and arguably the entire nation. Although works on religious pluralism within the context of the interactions among Christianity, Islam, and what, for the lack of a better phrase, is referred to as ‘Yoruba religion’ in Yorubaland have been produced in the past, which the author herself acknowledges and refers to, Janson’s offering on the subject is different. This work, by its very scope and breadth, raises the yardstick for the study of religion in Nigeria. The book explores the religious space in Lagos, with a focus on the dynamics between the various religions and religious movements that negotiate this space. However, the book does not rely on the, arguably hackneyed, lens of contestation in its approach. Instead, it focuses on how, on the one hand, Christian and Islamic movements ‘borrow’ from eachother in their daily religious practices and styles. On the other hand, it focuses on how religious adherents who do not limit themselves to strict identification with solely one religion, but, instead ‘shop’ from different religions understand notions of religious boundaries. Janson promulgates the assemblage theory as holding the conceptual strength to compensate for the weaknesses inherent in the other theories commonly used in studying religious pluralism, and this motif is a thread that runs through all of the chapters in this book.