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020 $a9781107021167
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050 00 $aBR115.P7$bP445 2012
082 00 $a305.6/7676082$223
084 $aHIS001000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPeterson, Derek R.,$d1971-
245 10 $aEthnic patriotism and the East African Revival :$ba social history of dissent, c. 1935 to 1972 /$cDerek R. Peterson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
260 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1206
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aAfrican studies series ;$v122
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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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 politics of moral reform in northwestern Tanganyika; 8. Subjects of the law: conversion and court procedure; 9. Casting characters: autobiography and political argument 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