| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Eastern African Studies
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Eastern African studies.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures & Tables; Preface; Foreword; 1. The Troubles of an Anthropologist; 2. The History & Ethnogenesis of the Acholi; 3. The Crisis; 4. The War of the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces; 5. The Holy Spirit Movement as a Regional Cult; 6. The March on Kampala; 7. The History of Religions in Acholi; 8. Alice & the Spirits; 9. The Texts of the Holy Spirit Movement; 10. The War in Acholi, 1987-96; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the ""Holy Spirit Mobile Forces."" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Auma, Alice -- Teachings.
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Acholi (African people) -- Religion.
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Acholi (African people) -- Religion. |
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Acholi (African people) |
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Religion and politics -- Uganda.
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Religion and politics. |
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Uganda. |
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Spiritualism -- Uganda.
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Spiritualism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Behrend, Heike Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits : War in Northern Uganda, 1985-97 Athens, OH : Ohio University Press,c2000 9780821413104 |
| ISBN |
9780821445709 (electronic book) |
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0821445707 (electronic book) |
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