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The chapter shows the long history of Christianity and Islam in Africa and how in many parts of Africa the two faiths have encountered each other, interacted with each other and often lived side by side amicably for many centuries. It shows that the increased polarization of Christians and Muslims in the world has led to the increased polarization of Christians and Muslims in Africa, and that the radicalization of religion, the Pentecostalization of Christianity and the rise of charismatic and evangelical Christian communities and the radicalization of Islam and the call for application of the Sharīʿa in parts of Africa threaten to create tension and destroy the peaceful co-existence between the two faith communities.
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Pawlikova-Vilhanova, V. (2020). Islam and Christianity in Africa. In: Ngom, F., Kurfi, M.H., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45759-4_13
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