TY - BOOK AU - Peterson,Derek R. TI - Ethnic patriotism and the East African Revival: a history of dissent, c. 1935 to 1972 T2 - African studies series SN - 9781107021167 U1 - 305.698676082 23A PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Christianity and politics / Africa, East / History / 20th century KW - East Africa Revival / History KW - Conversion / Christianity KW - Christianity and culture / Africa, East KW - Africa, East / Church history / 20th century KW - HISTORY / Africa / General N1 - Bibliogr. p. 295-334; Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: the pilgrims' politics; 2. The infrastructure of cosmopolitanism; 3. Religious movements in southern Uganda; 4. Civil society in Buganda; 5. Taking stock: conversion and accountancy in Bugufi; 6. Patriotism and dissent in western Kenya; 7. The politics of moral reform in northwestern Tanganyika; 8. Subjects of the law: conversion and court procedure; 9. Casting characters: autobiography and political argument in central Kenya; 10. Confession, slander, and civic virtue in Mau Mau detention camps; 11. Contests of time in western Uganda; Conclusion: pilgrims and patriots in contemporary east Africa; Bibliography N2 - "This book focuses on the struggle between cosmopolitan Christian converts and east African patriots to define culture and community in the mid-twentieth century"--; "Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with east Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned the ire of east Africa's patriots, who worked to root people in place as inheritors of ancestral wisdom. This book casts religious conversion in a new light: not as an inward reorientation of belief, but as a political action that opened up novel paths of self-narration and unsettled the inventions of tradition"-- ER -