'Everything is Plastic': The Faith of Unity Movement and the Making of a Post-Catholic Religion in Uganda

One of David Chidester's long-term fascinations in the academic study of religion is his nuanced scrutiny of the sensorial features of contemporary religious life. Chidester uses an approach of multi-sensorial imagination of matter to investigate the plasticity and elasticity of religion to inn...

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Auteur principal: Ukah, Asonzeh Franklin-Kennedy 1965- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: ASRSA [2018]
Dans: Journal for the study of religion
Année: 2018, Volume: 31, Numéro: 2, Pages: 138-160
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Uganda / Changement socioculturel / Changement religieux / Nouvelles religions
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux
KBN Afrique subsaharienne
Sujets non-standardisés:B Material Religion
B Owobusobozi
B David Chidester
B post-Catholic
B African Religion
B Faith of Unity
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Résumé:One of David Chidester's long-term fascinations in the academic study of religion is his nuanced scrutiny of the sensorial features of contemporary religious life. Chidester uses an approach of multi-sensorial imagination of matter to investigate the plasticity and elasticity of religion to innovate and accommodate changing religious and spiritual desires and how such adaptions ensure the popularity of religious participation in a contemporary, technology-saturated society. Based on an ethnographic investigation of a new religious movement in Uganda, this essay mobilizes some of the analytical concepts developed by Chidester to think through the material dynamics of African religious life in the context of changing socio-economic, cultural, and political contexts of Africa.
ISSN:2413-3027
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/v31n2a6