Pursuing Transformation: Healing, Deliverance, and Discourses of Development among Catholics in Uganda
This article considers how Catholics in Uganda engage with and respond to charismatic healing ministries, arguing that controversies over faith healing and deliverance ministries afford a privileged glimpse into how different actors understand how the church is called to effect specific forms of tra...
| Published in: | Mission studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Mission studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Uganda
/ Catholic church
/ Charismatic movement
/ Healing
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| RelBib Classification: | KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDB Roman Catholic Church KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
healing and deliverance
exorcism
health-seeking behavior
social transformation
Catholic Church
charismatic Christianity
Uganda
Paul Gifford
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This article considers how Catholics in Uganda engage with and respond to charismatic healing ministries, arguing that controversies over faith healing and deliverance ministries afford a privileged glimpse into how different actors understand how the church is called to effect specific forms of transformation in individuals and the societies they inhabit. Approaches to healing are multiple and contested, with local Catholics disagreeing about which methods of dealing with affliction are acceptable. While some understand biomedical treatment and healing prayer as competing alternatives – interpreting healing prayer as a threat to development initiatives and mature Christian discipleship – others understand them as complementary avenues of addressing affliction. Close analysis of how rural Catholics approach healing highlights the diversity of practice within the Catholic tradition, and the potential for different approaches to religious transformation to cause friction within parish communities. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341567 |