ISBN:
1139569163
,
1139108611
,
9781139569163
,
9781139108614
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
African studies series 122
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Peterson, Derek R., 1971- Ethnic patriotism and the East African Revival
DDC:
305.6/7676082
Keywords:
East Africa Revival History
;
Conversion Christianity
;
Christianity and culture
;
Christianity and politics History 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Christianity and culture
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Christianity and politics
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Conversion ; Christianity
;
East Africa Revival
;
Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
;
Nationalismus
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Religion
;
Erweckungsbewegung
;
Evangelikale Bewegung
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Kristendom och politik ; historia
;
Konversion till kristendom
;
Kristendom och kultur
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HISTORY ; Africa ; General
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Church history
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History
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Africa, East Church history 20th century
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Ostafrika
;
Africa, East
Abstract:
"Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with east Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned the ire of east Africa's patriots, who worked to root people in place as inheritors of ancestral wisdom. This book casts religious conversion in a new light: not as an inward reorientation of belief, but as a political action that opened up novel paths of self-narration and unsettled the inventions of tradition"--
Abstract:
"This book focuses on the struggle between cosmopolitan Christian converts and east African patriots to define culture and community in the mid-twentieth century"--
Abstract:
1. Introduction: the pilgrims' politics -- 2. The infrastructure of cosmopolitanism -- 3. Religious movements in southern Uganda -- 4. Civil society in Buganda -- 5. Taking stock: conversion and accountancy in Bugufi -- 6. Patriotism and dissent in western Kenya -- 7. The culiral work of moral reform in northwestern Tanganyika -- 8. Conversion and court procedure -- 9. The politics of autobiography in central Kenya -- 10. Confession, slander, and civic virtue in Mau Mau detention camps -- 11. Contests of time in western Uganda -- 12. Conclusion: pilgrims and patriots in contemporary east Africa.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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