TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Derek R.
TI  - Ethnic patriotism and the East African Revival: a history of dissent, c. 1935 to 1972 
T2  - African studies series
SN  - 9781139569163
AV  - BR115.P7 P445 2012eb
U1  - 305.6/7676082 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Africa, East
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - East Africa Revival
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Réveil est-africain
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Africa
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Nationalismus
KW  - Religion
KW  - Erweckungsbewegung
KW  - Evangelikale Bewegung
KW  - Kristendom och politik
KW  - historia
KW  - sao
KW  - Konversion till kristendom
KW  - Kristendom och kultur
KW  - Church history
KW  - Ostafrika
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "This book focuses on the struggle between cosmopolitan Christian converts and east African patriots to define culture and community in the mid-twentieth century"--; "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"--
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