Synopses & Reviews
This book discusses in a historical context how Christianity has been adopted in Southern Tanzania.
Synopsis
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.
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In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania, and discusses how Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania in the historical context of colonial mission. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies.
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This book explains how Christianity came to have widespread acceptance in Eastern Africa. By studying the Catholic practices of a rural community in Tanzania, Maia Green provides an anthropological account of what Catholics actually do in Eastern Africa, and hence what underlies Western assumptions of âconversionâ. This book allows us to rethink what is entailed by large-scale shifts in religious affiliation, providing an ethnographic account of contemporary Catholic practice in East Africa. It therefore engages with current debates in anthropology about gender, symbolism and religion.
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. Womenâs work; 9. Witchcraft suppression practices and movements; 10. Matters of substance; Notes; List of references; Index.