Heike Behrend

Resurrecting Cannibals

The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild (UMG), a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 142mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781847010391
• ISBN-10: 1847010393
• Artikelnr.: 33323530

Autorenporträt

Heike Behrend

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I EATING/BEING EATEN 'Eating the King': Fragments of a
History of Tooro Kingship Ethnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power
'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal PART II TERROR AND HEALING IN
TOORO Crisis and the Rise of Occult Forces Witches and Cannibals in Tooro
The Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in Tooro The Uganda Martyrs
Guild The Guild's Crusades PART III THE CANNIBAL IN COLONIAL MISSIONARY
ENCOUNTERS The Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' Persecutions
Christian Catechists and Missionaries in Tooro Missionaries, the Eucharist
and Cannibals in Tooro Resurrecting Cannibals Medical Spectacles of
Resurrection and Colonial Mirroring