Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c.1935–1972 (African Studies)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: New, 3/20/2014
EAN 9781107636965, ISBN10: 1107636965
Paperback, 370 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
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.