Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda

There is Confusion

AvHenni Alava,Naomi Haynes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Honorable mention, 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of ReligionThis open access book sheds 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.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of Jyväskylä.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-04-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:582 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350175808

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

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Henni Alava is Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University.

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A welcome addition to and extension of the anthropology of northern Uganda and that of Christianity ... Alava has a gift for holding herself back just enough while paying attention, allowing the research participants the time and space to unfold themselves.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: working with confusion 1. The Gun and the Word: Missionary-Colonial History in Acholi2. Church, State, War3. Learning to Listen to Silence and Confusion. Fieldwork in the Aftermath of War4. 'To Stand Atop an Anthill'. Performing the State in Kitgum5. The Underside of the Anthill6. ‘My peace I give you’. Utopian Narratives of Inclusion and Boundaries of Exclusion7. Confusion in the Church8. Navigating Confusion, Hope and ComplexityConclusionBibliographyIndex

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