Religion at work in globalised traditions : rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity in Tanzania / by Terje Oestigaard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oestigaard, Terje, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Tanzania.

Christianity.

Ulanga District (Tanzania)--Religious life and customs.

Ulanga District (Tanzania).

Ulanga District (Tanzania)--Church history--20th century.

Catholic Church--Tanzania--Ulanga District--History--20th century.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why do traditions disappear? How is the disappearance of tradition also a vehicle for social change and re-inventions of practices and new traditions? Using case studies from one Sukuma area along the southern shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, global processes of how religions work in practice are analysed by focusing on rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity. Traditionally, Sukuma society was culturally and cosmologically structured around the chief, the ancestors and rainmaking. Everyth...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 7, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5876-5

OCLC:

875819869