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Displacing the state : religion and conflict in neoliberal Africa / edited by James Howard Smith and Rosalind I. J. Hackett ; foreword by R. Scott Appleby.

Title
Displacing the state : religion and conflict in neoliberal Africa / edited by James Howard Smith and Rosalind I. J. Hackett ; foreword by R. Scott Appleby.
Publication
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

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xi, 299 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Kroc Institute Series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding
Uniform Title
  • Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace building.
  • Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Note
  • "The volume has its remote origins in an international conference held in Jinja, Uganda, from March 31 to April 3, 2004, and sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame"--Foreword.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • committed to retain
Contents
Religious dimensions of conflict and peace in a neoliberal Africa: an introduction / James Howard Smith -- Forgiveness with consequences: scriptures, Qené, and traditions of restorative justice in nineteenth-century Ethiopia / Charles Schaefer -- Making peace with the devil: the political life of devil worship rumors in Kenya / James Howard Smith -- The Mungiki movement: a source of religio-political conflict in Kenya / Grace Nyatugah Wamue-Ngare -- Magic as identity maker: conflict and militia formation in eastern Congo / Koen Vlassenroot -- Religion, politics, and gender in Zimbabwe: the Masowe apostles and Chimurenga religion / Isabel Mukonyora -- "Devil bustin' satellites": how media liberalization in Africa generates religious intolerance and conflict / Rosalind I. J. Hackett -- Mediating armageddon: popular Christian video films as a source of conflict in Nigeria / Asonzeh F.-K. Ukah -- "The domestic relations bill" and inter-religious conflict in Uganda: a Muslim reading of personal law and religious pluralism in a postcolonial society / Abasi Kiyimba.
ISBN
  • 9780268030957 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0268030952 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011040049
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Harvard Library