LEADER 05442nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910964662703321 005 20230126211420.0 010 $a9780268092771 010 $a026809277X 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064615 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606320 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433955 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606320 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580590 035 $a(PQKB)11133583 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571200 035 $a(OCoLC)793012612 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17151 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571200 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10557743 035 $a(Perlego)3538110 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064615 100 $a20110922d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDisplacing the state $ereligion and conflict in neoliberal Africa /$fedited by James Howard Smith and Rosalind I. J. Hackett ; foreword by R. Scott Appleby 210 $aNotre Dame, Ind. $cUniversity of Notre Dame Press$d2012 215 $axi, 299 p 225 1 $aKroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace building 300 $a"The volume has its remote origins in an international conference held in Jinja, Uganda, from March 31 to April 3, 2004, and sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame"--Foreword. 311 08$a9780268030957 311 08$a0268030952 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReligious 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. 330 8 $aIn colonial Africa, Christianity has often supported, sustained, and legitimated a violent process of governance. More recently, however, following decades of violence and oppression, churches and religious organizations have mobilized African publics against corrupt and abusive regimes and facilitated new forms of reconciliation and cooperation. It is the purpose of Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa to illustrate the nature of religion's ambivalent power in Africa while suggesting new directions in the study of religion, conflict, and peace studies, with a specific focus on sub-Saharan Africa. As the editors make clear, most of the literature on conflict and peacebuilding in Africa has been concerned with dramatic conflicts such as genocide and war. In these studies, "conflict"usually means a violent clash between parties with opposing interests, while "peace" implies reconciliation and cooperation between these parties, usually with a view to achieving a social order predicated on the idea of the sovereign national state whose hegemony is viewed as normative. The contributors argue that this perspective is inadequate for understanding the nature, depth, and persistence of conflict in Africa. In contrast, the chapters in this volume adopt an ethnographic approach, often focusing on mundane manifestations of both conflict and peace, and in so doing draw attention to the ambiguities and ambivalences of conflict and peace in everyday life. The volume therefore focuses our attention on the extent to which everyday conflict contributes to subsequently larger and more highly visible clashes. Displacing the State makes two important contributions to the study of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. First, it shows how peace is conceptualized and negotiated in daily life, often in ways that are counterintuitive and anything but peaceful. Second, the volume uses African case studies to confront assumptions about the nature of the relationships among religion, conflict, and peace. 410 0$aKroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace building. 606 $aSocial conflict$zAfrica$xReligious aspects 606 $aReligion and state$zAfrica 606 $aPeace-building$zAfrica$xReligious aspects 607 $aAfrica$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aSocial conflict$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aReligion and state 615 0$aPeace-building$xReligious aspects. 676 $a201.72096 701 $aSmith$b James Howard$01808394 701 $aHackett$b Rosalind I. J$01597879 701 $aAppleby$b R. Scott$f1956-$0502011 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964662703321 996 $aDisplacing the state$94368899 997 $aUNINA