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100 1 $aPeterson, Derek R.,$d1971-
245 10 $aEthnic patriotism and the East African Revival :$ba history of dissent, c. 1935 to 1972 /$cDerek R. Peterson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
264 1 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $axx, 344 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aAfrican studies ;$v122
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index.
520 $a"This book focuses on the struggle between cosmopolitan Christian converts and east African patriots to define culture and community in the mid-twentieth century"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with east Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned the ire of east Africa's patriots, who worked to root people in place as inheritors of ancestral wisdom. This book casts religious conversion in a new light: not as an inward reorientation of belief, but as a political action that opened up novel paths of self-narration and unsettled the inventions of tradition"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $a1. 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 cultural 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 -- Conclusion: pilgrims and patriots in contemporary east Africa; Bibliography.
650 0 $aChristianity and politics$zAfrica, East$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aEast Africa Revival$xHistory.
650 0 $aConversion$xChristianity.
650 0 $aChristianity and culture$zAfrica, East.
651 0 $aAfrica, East$xChurch history$y20th century.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Africa / General.$2bisacsh
830 0 $aAfrican studies series ;$v122.
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