Confronting Disunity: Indigenous Religions as Critics of Politics in Africa
In this article, I present visions of political unity as imagined by Faith of Unity from Uganda and the Waqqeeffana Followers Association from Ethiopia. I describe how politics is mobilized through notions of disunity and unity. The organizations' critique of politics is articulated using the v...
| Published in: | Journal of Africana religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2018
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 190-207 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Uganda
/ Ethiopia
/ Popular belief
/ Religious organization
/ Political participation
/ National unity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations AZ New religious movements BB Indigenous religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBN Ecclesiology NCD Political ethics RB Church office; congregation XA Law |
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| Summary: | In this article, I present visions of political unity as imagined by Faith of Unity from Uganda and the Waqqeeffana Followers Association from Ethiopia. I describe how politics is mobilized through notions of disunity and unity. The organizations' critique of politics is articulated using the vocabulary of religion, which is central to political dis/unity. Drawing on ethnographic data generated from Ethiopia and Uganda, I show that indigenous religions are, in their own right, spaces for the production of political thought attuned to the time and context of their existence. Their engagement expands the domains of the political from its usual confinesfor instance, civil society associations, parties, NGOs, and states. Paying attention to such spaces uncovers more sites in which political subjectivities are formed, shaped, and reshaped. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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