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100	1		_aAlava, Henni _eauthor. _9810719
245	1	0	_aChristianity, politics and the afterlives of war in Uganda : _bThere is confusion
260			_aNew York, USA: _bBloomsbury Academic, _c2022.
263			_a2204
264		1	_c2022.
300			_axix, 267p. cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
365			_b90.00 _cUKP
490	1		_aNew directions in the anthropology of Christianity
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Christianity, politics and the afterlives of war in Acholi - orientations into the field -- The gun and the word: Missionary-colonial history in Kitgum -- Church, state, war -- Learning to listen to silence and confusion -- To stand atop an anthill -- The underside of the anthill -- 'My peace I give you' -- Confusion in the church -- Conclusion: The value of embeddedness and confusion.
520			_a"This book sheds light on the complex relationships of Christianity, politics, peace and war in Africa and beyond. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, it provides a critical assessment of the Catholic and Anglican Churches' societal role following the war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda (1986 - 2006). The book shows that Christian narratives of peace are entwined in the social, political and material realities within which the churches that profess them are embedded. This embeddedness both enables the churches' peace work and sets it insurmountable limits. While churches aim to nurture peace, they themselves are cut up by societal divisions, and entrenched in structures of historical violence in ways that make their cries for peace liable to provoke conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty; a state of mixed-up affairs within community; and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterised by the threat of state violence. Building on this local concept, the book also advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aLord's Resistance Army. _9810720
650		0	_aChristianity and politics _zUganda. _9810721
650		0	_aReligion _9810722
650		0	_aPeace-building _zUganda _xReligious aspects _xChristianity. _9810723
650		0	_aCivil war _zUganda _xReligious aspects _xChristianity. _9810724
651		0	_aUganda _xPolitics and government _y1979- _9810725
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aAlava, Henni. _tChristianity, politics and the afterlives of war in Uganda _dNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 _z9781350175839 _w(DLC) 2021054793
830		0	_aNew directions in the anthropology of Christianity. _9810726
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