Ghosts of Kanungu : fertility, secrecy & exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa

Ghosts of Kanungu : fertility, secrecy & exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa /

On 17 March 2000 several hundred members of a charismatic Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), burnt to death in the group's headquarters in the Southwest Ugandan village of Kanungu. Days later the Uganda.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vokes, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Kampala, Uganda : Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Fountain Publishers ; James Currey, ©2009.
Series:African anthropology.
Subjects:
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Bewegung zur Wiederherstellung der Zehn Gebote
1900-1999
Geschichte
Geschichte 2000
Fires > Casualties > Uganda > Kanungu.
Mass burials > Uganda > Kanungu.
Fire investigation > Uganda > Kanungu.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Fire investigation
Fires > Casualties
Mass burials
Social conditions
Brandkatastrophe
Fruchtbarkeitskult
Chiliasmus
Aids
Kanungu (Uganda) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Uganda > Kanungu
Kanungu
Uganda > Südwest
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : The End as a Beginning; 1. Introduction; 2. On Fertility & Misfortune; 3. The Many Lives of the Nyabingi Spirit; 4. Genesis : Building the Network; 5. Numbers : Religion in the time of AIDS; 6. Chronicles : The History of an African-Initiated Church; 7. Revelation : The Last Days of the MRTC; Epilogue; Appendix. Marian Literature Used by the MRTC.

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