ISBN:
9781847010391
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1283620502
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9781283620505
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (226 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Eastern Africa Series
Series Statement:
Eastern Africa Ser. v.11
Parallel Title:
Print version Resurrecting Cannibals : The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda
DDC:
282.6761
Keywords:
Uganda Martyrs Guild
;
Cannibalism -- Uganda -- Toro
;
Cannibalism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
;
Witch hunting -- Uganda -- Toro
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Since the 1990s the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay Catholic movement in Western Uganda, has responded to an extended crisis of growing poverty, state retreat and corruption, guerrilla war, AIDS, an upsurge of occult forces in the form of cannibal witches and competition from Pentecostal movements by organizing witch-hunts against alleged cannibals. These witch-hunts are analysed here as part of a long history of competition between the Christian church and local religions. While Christian missionaries repressed and demonized elements of African religion, African ritual experts appropriated
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontcover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part One: Eating/Being Eaten; 1 'Eating the King': Fragments of a History of Tooro; 2 Ethnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power; 3 'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal and the Eucharist; 4 Eating to Destroy: Cannibals and Witches in Tooro; Part Two: Terror and Healing in Tooro; 5 Crisis and the Rise of Occult Powers; 6 The Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in Tooro; 7 The Uganda Martyrs Guild; 8 The Guild's Crusades; Part Three: The Cannibal in Colonial Missionary Encounters
Description / Table of Contents:
9 The Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' Persecutions10 Christian Catechists and Missionaries in Tooro; 11 Missionaries, the Eucharist and Cannibals in Tooro; 12 Resurrecting Cannibals; 13 Medical Spectacles of Resurrection and Colonial Mirroring; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover;
Note:
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,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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