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Book SynopsisIn this conceptual history, Nicole Eggers argues that practitioners of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala can be understood as intellectuals, innovators, and vital participants in the construction and use of power. Eggers also explores the relationship between healing and violence in their frequently gendered central African manifestations.
Trade ReviewUnruly Ideas is an original, refreshing, one-of-a-kind study about power, invisible and holistic power. How Congolese Kitawalists displayed 'intellectual agency' and challenged European 'hoarders of power' by carving out their own political space and by availing themselves of religious and thaumaturgic possibilities is at the heart of Nicole Eggers’s fine-grained narrative. -- Ch. Didier Gondola, author of Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa
Nicole Eggers has written an engaging, original, and important account of the Kitawalist religious movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from the 1930s to recent times, packed with the results of years of archival and oral research. -- David M. Gordon, author of Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History
“Nicole Eggers has written an engaging, original, and important account of the Kitawalist religious movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), from the 1930s to recent times, packed with the results of years of archival and oral research.”
“This is an original and one-of-a-kind study that historians, anthropologists, and political scientists will find quite rewarding.”
