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Book SynopsisReligious activities have been of continuing importance in the rise of protest against post-colonial governments in Eastern Africa.
Trade Review... a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and state in Africa and should be required reading for specialists and students of contemporary African society and politics. What gives this volume its particular value for specialist and general readers alike is the overall emphasis given to the significance of the social and economic environment for the political salience of religion in the rapidly changing environment of the past twenty-five years... There is also a freshness to the discussions that reflects both the fruits of recent field work and the 'mix' of long established and newer scholars for which the editors are to be congratulated. - -- Cherry Gertzel * DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE *
What this book suggests is just how much politico-religious history there has been between 1960 and 1990 and how little attempt has been made hitherto to put together a coherent account of it. - -- Adrian Hastings * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *
... This is a collection which goes to the heart of very many east African problems, and calls for attention and careful study. - -- Hugh Dinwiddy * JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA *
...ranges freely across a mosaic of Christian, Islamic and independent religions bringing to light a number of fascinating insights, puzzles and paradoxes. - -- Norman Etherington in ASA of Australasia & Pacific Newsletter
...there is a unity to this volume that is not present in many edited volumes. - -- Edgar V. Winans * JOURNAL OF DEVELOPING AREAS *
Table of ContentsPart 1 The challenge of Islam: attempts to create Muslim national organizations, F. Constantin; the issue of Sharia in Sudan, R.S. O'Fahey; Idi Amin, "the Nubi" and Islam in Ugandan politics, Omari H. Kokole. Part 2 Christianity, sectarianism and politics in Uganda: holy spirit movement, Heike Behrend; the church of Uganda amidst conflict, K. Ward; the Catholic church and the root cause of political instability, J.M. Waliggo; Catholics and political identity in Toro, R. Kassirer. Part 3 Christians and Muslims in Kenyan politics: politics of church-state conflict in Kenya 1978-1990, D. Throup; Kenya's Protestant churches and the Nyayo state, G.P. Benson; Muslim predicament in Kenya, D. Cruise O'Brien. Part 4 Cross-cultural complications: Christian-Muslim inputs into public policy formation in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, A.B.K. Kasozi; churches and human rights in Kenya and Uganda, M. Louise Pirouet; church and state in East Africa - unresolved questions, M. Doornbos; dilemmas and challenges in the study of religion and politics, H. Hansen.
