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Imitating Christ in Magwi : an anthropological theology
- Title
- Imitating Christ in Magwi : an anthropological theology / Todd David Whitmore.
- Author
- Whitmore, Todd, 1957-
- Publication
- London : T&T Clark, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- ix, 386 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Imitating Christ in Magwi: An Anthropological Theology achieves two things. First, focusing on indigenous Roman Catholics in northern Uganda and South Sudan, it is a detailed ethnography of how a community sustains hope in the midst of one of the most brutal wars in recent memory, that between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army. Whitmore finds that the belief that the spirit of Jesus Christ can enter into a person through such devotions as the Adoration of the Eucharist gave people the wherewithal to carry out striking works of mercy during the conflict, and, like Jesus of Nazareth, to risk their lives in the process. Traditional devotion leveraged radical witness. Second, Gospel Mimesis is a call for theology itself to be a practice of imitating Christ. Such practice requires both living among people on the far margins of society - Whitmore carried out his fieldwork in Internally Displaced Persons camps - and articulating a theology that foregrounds the daily, if extraordinary, lives of people. Here, ethnography is not an add-on to theological concepts; rather, ethnography is a way of doing theology, and includes what anthropologists call "thick description" of lives of faith. Unlike theology that draws only upon abstract concepts, what Whitmore calls "anthropological theology" is consonant with the fact that God did indeed become human. It may well involve risk to one's own life - Whitmore had to leave Uganda for three years after writing an article critical of the President - but that is what imitatio Christi sometimes requires.
- Series Statement
- T&T Clark studies in social ethics, ethnography and theology
- Uniform Title
- T & T Clark studies in social ethics, ethnography, and theology.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Imitating Christ in Magwi : Theology in media res -- Part I: Attention. Sequela comboni : Writing theological ethnography in the context of empire -- Bishop Negri's psst : Following Jesus in the middle of war -- Part II: Discernment. Mimetic scholarship : Anthropological theology as apprenticeship to the other -- Gaps : The limits of mimesis -- Crossings : The surprise of mimesis -- Part III: Commitment. Risk : Naming genocide -- Part IV: Return. An offering : Bringing the ethnographic encounter home -- Appendix: From gospel mimesis to "theology" : How a discipline lost its senses.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1058
- ISBN
- 9780567684189
- 0567684180
- 9780567684172
- 0567684172
- OCLC
- 1041884885
- Author
- Whitmore, Todd, 1957- author.
- Title
- Imitating Christ in Magwi : an anthropological theology / Todd David Whitmore.
- Publisher
- London : T&T Clark, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- T&T Clark studies in social ethics, ethnography and theologyT & T Clark studies in social ethics, ethnography, and theology.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1058