Behrend Resurrecting Cannibals

The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84615-996-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 11, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Eastern Africa Series

This is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behrend, Heike

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I EATING/BEING EATEN
'Eating the King': Fragments of a History of Tooro Kingship
Ethnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power
'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal PART II TERROR AND HEALING IN TOORO
Crisis and the Rise of Occult Forces
Witches and Cannibals in Tooro
The Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in Tooro
The Uganda Martyrs Guild
The Guild's Crusades PART III THE CANNIBAL IN COLONIAL MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS
The Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' Persecutions
Christian Catechists and Missionaries in Tooro
Missionaries, the Eucharist and Cannibals in Tooro
Resurrecting Cannibals
Medical Spectacles of Resurrection and Colonial Mirroring