Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda - Couverture souple

Livre 3 sur 13: Religion in Transforming Africa

Earle, Jonathon L.; Carney, J.J.

 
9781847013651: Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda
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ISBN 10 : 1847013651 ISBN 13 : 9781847013651
Editeur : James Currey, 2023

Synopsis

First scholarly treatment of Uganda's first elected ruler; offers new insights into the religious and political history of modern Uganda.


Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician, and his legacy is still divisive. On the eve of independence, he led the Democratic Party (DP), a national movement of predominantly Catholic activists, to end political inequalities and religious discrimination. Along the way, he became Uganda's first prime minister and first Ugandan chief justice. Earle and Carney show how Kiwanuka and Catholic activists struggled to create an inclusive vision of the state, a vision that resulted in relentless intimidation and extra-judicial killings. Focusing closely on the competing Catholic projects that circulated throughout Uganda, this book offers new ways of thinking about the history of democratic thought, while pushing the study of Catholicism in Africa outside of the church and beyond the gaze of missionaries. Drawing on never before seen sources from Kiwanuka's personal papers, the authors upend many of the assumptions that have framed Uganda's political and religious history for over sixty years, as well as repositioning Uganda's politics within the global arena.

Fountain: Uganda

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À propos des auteurs

JONATHON L. EARLE is the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Social Studies at Centre College and co-author of Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda.

J.J. Carney is Associate Professor of Theology, Creighton University, and author of Rwanda before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era (2014), which won the Ogot award.

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Éditeur
James Currey
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847013651
ISBN 13 
9781847013651
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  184701240X ISBN 13 :  9781847012401
Editeur : James Currey, 2021
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