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Author Smith, James Howard

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
Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace building.
Contents Religious dimensions of conflict and peace in a neoliberal Africa: an introduction / James Howard Smith -- Forgiveness with consequences: scriptures, Qene, 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
Notes "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 Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Peace-building -- Africa -- Religious aspects
Religion and state -- Africa
Social conflict -- Africa -- Religious aspects
Peace-building -- Religious aspects.
Religion and state.
Social conflict -- Religious aspects.
SUBJECT Africa -- Religious life and customs
Subject Africa.
Form Electronic book
Author Hackett, Rosalind I. J
Smith, James Howard
ISBN 9780268092771
026809277X