ISBN:
9781139108614
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 344 Seiten)
Series Statement:
African studies 122
Series Statement:
African studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.6/7676082
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1935-1972
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Christentum
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Geschichte
;
Kirchengeschichte
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Christianity and politics / Africa, East / History / 20th century
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East Africa Revival / History
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Conversion / Christianity
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Christianity and culture / Africa, East
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Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
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Nationalismus
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Religion
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Africa, East / Church history / 20th century
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Ostafrika
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Ostafrika
;
Nationalismus
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Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
;
Religion
;
Geschichte 1935-1972
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139108614
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