ISBN:
9781009262682
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (318 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
The International African Library v.Series Number 74
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
305.2350967571
Abstract:
Aimed at postgraduate students and researchers of anthropology, sociology and youth culture in Africa, and Rwanda in particular, this book offers insights into how urban young people in Rwanda navigate everyday life through popular music and new religious practices, finding ways to exert agency in a challenging political context.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Transforming Hearts -- 'Igisobanuro cy'urupfu' -- Transforming Hearts -- Umutima wumva: A Heart That Hears, Feels, Listens -- Youth, Pentecostalism, Popular Culture -- Historical Context: Religion, Culture, Power -- The 'New' Rwanda: A Development Success Story? -- Methodology: The City, Gacaca, Silences -- Chapter Outline -- Part I Urban Youth and Pentecostal Worlds -- 1 Of Hearts, Visions, and Pentecostal Subjects -- The Post-Genocide Religious Landscape -- True Revival Church -- Feeling 'Free' with Jesus -- Healing from Broken-Heartedness -- Moving On from 'Struggling' -- Véronique: Learning How to Pray -- Entrepreneurial Visions and 'Strategic Plans' -- Development 'Visions' for Some, not for Others -- On Blocked Futures -- The Problem of Shoes -- The Pentecostal Subject, the RPF Subject -- 2 Who Are the 'True' Sons of God? Ubwenge and Pentecostal Ethics -- Christian Ubwenge -- Gaston: Ubwenge in Practice -- Robert: On the Dangers of 'Hot Blood' -- Of Endings -- 'False Sons' in the Church -- Ubwenge and the State -- Pretending to Forget -- Ubwenge, Social Navigation, Resistance -- 3 Leaving a Legacy: Pentecostal Women and Timework -- Gender under the RPF -- The Dangers of Marriage -- Lydia: Ubwenge as Gendered -- Pastor Herve: On the Perils of Female Leadership -- Timework and Christian Legacies -- Leaving/Living a Legacy -- Hearts That Had Been Transformed Too Much? -- The Problem with Women -- Gender as Structure? -- 4 Rwanda Shima Imana: The Politics of Thanksgiving -- The New Churches and the State: Paul Kagame and Rick Warren -- Rwanda Thanksgiving Day: 'Yesu ashimwe!' -- A New RPF-Protestant Axis? -- 'Gitwaza, Mihigo Kizito Disagree on God's Mercy' -- The Controversy.
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