ISBN:
9781350175815
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9781350175839
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
New directions in the anthropology of Christianity
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Keywords:
Politik
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Nachkriegszeit
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Religion
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Uganda
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Church history / 1979-
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Religion and politics / Uganda / History / 1979-
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Uganda / Politics and government / 1979-
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Church history
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Politics and government
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Religion and politics
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Uganda
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Since 1979
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History
;
Uganda
;
Nachkriegszeit
;
Politik
;
Religion
Abstract:
"Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda’s largest religious communities, it maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. It shows how churches’ responses to the war were enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet churches’ embeddedness in structures of historical violence made their attempts to nurture peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, ‘confusion’, which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates ‘confusion’ as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence."
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: working with confusion -- 2. The gun and the word: missionary-colonial history in Acholi -- 3. Church, state, war -- 4. Learning to listen to silence and confusion. Fieldwork in the aftermath of war -- 5. 'To stand atop an anthill'. Performing the state in Kitgum -- 6. The underside of the anthill -- 7. 'My peace I give you'. Utopian narratives of inclusion and boundaries of exclusion -- 8. Confusion in the church -- 9. Navigating confusion, hope and complexity
DOI:
10.5040/9781350175815
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