Priests, Witches and Power: Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania

by Maia Green

Overview

This anthropological account of a Catholic community in East Africa reveals how Catholicism came to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania and how this history currently affects practicing Catholics. Maia Green provides a descriptive account of those considering themselves Catholics in Eastern Africa in relationship to Western assumptions of "conversion". She thus encourages a new approach to the consequences of large-scale shifts in religious affiliation. The book also contains information about other ritual practices concerning kinship, aging and death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521621892
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/06/2003
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology , #112
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

MAIA GREEN is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester

Table of Contents

List of maps; Preface; 1. Global Christianity and the structure of power; 2. Colonial conquest and the consolidation of marginality; 3, Evangelisation in Ulanga; 4. The persistence of mission; 5. Popular Christianity; 6. Kinship and the creation of relationship; 7. Engendering power; 8. Women's work; 9. Witchcraft suppression practices and movements; 10. Matters of substance; Notes; List of references; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"The author's main argument... is well taken, while her focus on contemporary social and ritual practice is informative.... The ethnographic material is rich, and her theoretical perspective is sophisticated." Choice

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