Religion and Politics in Uganda
Author: Arye Oded
Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9789966465726
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Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9789966465726
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henni Alava
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1350175838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Ugandasheds 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.
Author: Murindwa Rutanga
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 2869784929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book ... focuses on the European invasion of the GLR. It analyses the factors that underlay the invasion, the demarcation process that followed and the indigenous people’s responses to it. What is worth noting is that most of the anti-colonial struggles in the GLR were anchored in religion. Reference is made to the Maji Maji Rebellion, the Nyabingi Movement, the Lamogi Movement, Dini Ya Misambwa and the different independent churches that arose in the GLR during colonialism. Even the more secular Mau Mau Movement integrated religious cultural practices in its bondings through oath taking. The most pronounced was the Nyabingi Movement, which covered almost the whole region – Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC and Uganda ... This work investigates why [the groups] resisted, the nature of their resistance and the reasons why they were defeated. It explains why and how the European colonisation of this region created material conditions and seeds for thesubsequent recurrent conflicts in the GLR."--Page 6.
Author: Frederick Burkewood Welbourn
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 78
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Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul Jackson
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 9780704427822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jeffrey Haynes
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The impact of religion on the political process has come to the fore in recent years in a wide variety of societies. Yet the significant and varied ways in which the rapidly changing religious context has impacted on the politics of modern Africa is still a relatively neglected field. This book, which is designed to fill this gap in the teaching of African Politics, assembles and analyses an enormous amount of hitherto scattered material on the interaction between politics and religious groups in the post-independence, but also colonial, eras. Dr Haynes focuses on all three of the main organised religious traditions in Africa - Christian, Islamic and 'syncretistic' movements, including the rise of various fundamentalist groups. His thematic and comparative approach embraces all parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, and seeks to locate the role of religion in the African political process in its historical, social and international contexts. In doing so, he illuminates what has often been a profoundly important factor affecting the stability of governments, evolution of civil society and even the development trajectory of many African countries. The author's combination of theoretical context, rich empirical information and thoughtful analysis makes this book ideal as a text for students, as well as commanding a wider interest.
Author: Holger Bernt Hansen
Publisher: James Currey
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Religious activities have been of continuing importance in the rise of protest against post-colonial governments in Eastern Africa. This volume describes attempts by governments to manage religious affairs in both Muslim and Christian areas; religious denominations acting in opposition to one-party state regimes; Islamic fundamentalism and its role before and after the end of the Cold War; and the era of structural adjustment and the part played by Christian churches operating as NGOs within its constraints.
Author: Anthony K. Mbonye
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9789970992256
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