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UNINA9910783131903321 |
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Autore |
Green Maia |
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Titolo |
Priests, witches and power : popular Christianity after mission in Southern Tanzania / / Maia Green [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-12778-5 |
1-280-41737-4 |
0-511-17873-5 |
1-139-14570-3 |
0-511-06600-7 |
0-511-05969-8 |
0-511-32597-5 |
0-511-48953-6 |
0-511-06813-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; ; 112 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ulanga District (Tanzania) Church history 20th century |
Ulanga District (Tanzania) Religious life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Global Christianity and the structure of power -- Colonial conquest and the consolidation of marginality -- Evangelisation in Ulanga -- The persistence of mission -- Popular Christianity -- Kinship and the creation of relationship -- Engendering power -- Women's work -- Witchcraft suppression practices and movements -- Matters of substance. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthodoxy, and local |
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