Priests, Witches and Power: Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania
Maia Green
This anthropological account of a Catholic community in East Africa reveals how Catholicism came to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania and how this history currently affects practicing Catholics. Maia Green provides a descriptive account of those considering themselves Catholics in Eastern Africa in relationship to Western assumptions of "conversion". She thus encourages a new approach to the consequences of large-scale shifts in religious affiliation. The book also contains information about other ritual practices concerning kinship, aging and death.
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Year:
2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
200
ISBN 10:
0521621895
ISBN 13:
9780521621892
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
File:
PDF, 1.44 MB
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english, 2003