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Author Peterson, Derek R., 1971-

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

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Physical Medium polychrome
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Series African studies series ; 122
African studies series ; 122.
Summary "This book focuses on the struggle between cosmopolitan Christian converts and east African patriots to define culture and community in the mid-twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Christianity and politics -- Africa, East -- History -- 20th century.
Christianity and politics.
Africa, East.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject East Africa Revival -- History.
East Africa Revival.
Conversion -- Christianity.
Conversion -- Christianity.
Christianity and culture -- Africa, East.
Christianity and culture.
Africa, East -- Church history -- 20th century.
Church history.
Östafrika.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Peterson, Derek R., 1971- Ethnic patriotism and the East African Revival. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107021167 (DLC) 2012012618 (OCoLC)791489449
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