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Subject(s)

• Church history—20th century [Browse]
• Ulanga District (Tanzania)—Church history—20th century [Browse]
• Ulanga District (Tanzania)—Religious life and customs [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Tanzania—Ulanga District—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110. [More in this series]

Summary note

In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthodoxy, and local populations and indigenous clergy. Paradoxically, while local practices around the constitution of kinship and personhood remain defiantly free of Christian elements, they inform a popular Christianity experienced as a system of substances and practices. This book offers a challenge to idealist and interpretative accounts of African participation in twentieth-century religious forms, and argues for a politically grounded analysis of historical processes. It will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies; particularly those interested in religion and kinship.

Notes

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

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Global Christianity and the structure of power
• Colonial conquest and the consolidation of marginality
• Evangelisation in Ulanga
• The persistence of mission
• Popular Christianity
• Kinship and the creation of relationship
• Engendering power
• Women's work
• Witchcraft suppression practices and movements
• Matters of substance.

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ISBN

• 1-107-12778-5
• 1-280-41737-4
• 0-511-17873-5
• 1-139-14570-3
• 0-511-06600-7
• 0-511-05969-8
• 0-511-32597-5
• 0-511-48953-6
• 0-511-06813-1

OCLC

57123410

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