Ethnic patriotism and the East African Revival : a history of dissent, c. 1935-1972 / Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Derek R., 1971- author.

Series:

African studies series ; 122.

African studies ; [122]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and politics--Africa, East--History--20th century.

Christianity and politics.

East Africa Revival--History.

East Africa Revival.

Conversion--Christianity.

Conversion.

Christianity and culture--Africa, East.

Christianity and culture.

Africa, East--Church history--20th century.

Africa, East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Ethnic Patriotism & the East African Revival

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781139888882

1139888889

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9781139569163

1139569163

9781139108614

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9781283638692

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9781139570060

1139570064

OCLC:

815389322

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32013 hdl