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

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Description	1 online resource (316 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Contents	Table of contents; acknowledgements; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chaper four; chapter five; chapter six; about the author; notes; bibliography; index.
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 ...
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Subject	Catholic Church -- Tanzania -- Ulanga District -- History -- 20th century.
	Catholic Church.
	Tanzania -- Ulanga District.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Ulanga District (Tanzania) -- Religious life and customs.
	Ulanga District (Tanzania) -- Church history -- 20th century.
	Religion.
	Religion.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Oestigaard, Terje. Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 9781443858762
ISBN	9781443858762 (electronic book)
	1443858765 (electronic book)