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Conclusion

from Part III - Imagining the Past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2023

Rabiat Akande
Affiliation:
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
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Summary

Empire’s embrace of secular governmentality called for a rhetoric of state separation from religion. At the same time, however, the state’s promise of religious autonomy and the ideological underpinnings and administrative exigencies of indirect rule translated into the co-option, regulation, and transformation of religion and religious institutions. In the end, therefore, imperial secular governmentality–in its varied spatial and temporal manifestations–entailed an uneasy truce between the rhetoric of state-religion separation, and the everyday intimacy of religion and state authority. The conclusion argues that that paradox is central to the law and politics of the modern state’s governance of religious difference.

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Entangled Domains
Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria
, pp. 267 - 273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Conclusion
  • Rabiat Akande, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
  • Book: Entangled Domains
  • Online publication: 18 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009052108.011
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  • Conclusion
  • Rabiat Akande, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
  • Book: Entangled Domains
  • Online publication: 18 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009052108.011
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  • Conclusion
  • Rabiat Akande, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
  • Book: Entangled Domains
  • Online publication: 18 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009052108.011
Available formats
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