Mushmouth
05-03-2017, 06:37 AM
Entranced, men and women sitting on multi-coloured prayer mats, raise their hands to the heavens.
NASFAT is one of a growing number of groups practising "charismatic Islam" in response to the massive success of pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria, said Ebenezer Obadare, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas.
It has introduced "new modalities of prayer, modes of proselytising, and repertoires of devotion that closely approximate forms normally exclusively associated with Pentecostal Christianity," he told AFP.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/praise-allah-islam-goes-evangelical-nigerias-south-030145365.html
NASFAT is one of a growing number of groups practising "charismatic Islam" in response to the massive success of pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria, said Ebenezer Obadare, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas.
It has introduced "new modalities of prayer, modes of proselytising, and repertoires of devotion that closely approximate forms normally exclusively associated with Pentecostal Christianity," he told AFP.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/praise-allah-islam-goes-evangelical-nigerias-south-030145365.html