ETHNIC PATRIOTISM AND THE EAST AFRICAN REVIVAL by Derek R. Peterson ( 9781107021167 )

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ETHNIC PATRIOTISM AND THE EAST AFRICAN REVIVAL
A HISTORY OF DISSENT, C.1935-1972

By:

Derek R. Peterson

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1107021162

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

24 September, 2012

Series:

African Studies 122

Pages:

370

Description:

This book focuses on the struggle between cosmopolitan Christian converts and East African patriots to define culture and community in the mid-twentieth century.

Synopsis:

Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with East Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned the ire of East Africa's patriots, who worked to root people in place as inheritors of ancestral wisdom. This book casts religious conversion in a new light: not as an inward reorientation of belief, but as a political action that opened up novel paths of self-narration and unsettled the inventions of tradition.

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6 b/w illus. 3 maps

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of African Studies Association Melville J. Herskovits Award 2013 Winner of American Historical Association Martin A. Klein Prize in African

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