Description: Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya : Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes , Hardcover by Wild-Wood, Emma, ISBN 1847012469, ISBN-13 9781847012463, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Apolo Kivebulaya was a practitioner of indigenous religion and a Muslim before he became in 1895 a Christian missionary from Buganda to Toro and Ituri. He is still admired as a churchman and missionary in the Anglican churches ofUganda, Congo, Tanzania and Kenya, and is a significant civic figure in school curricula in Uganda. This book provides insight into religious encounter in the Great Lakes region of Africa, in which individuals like Kivebulaya remade themselves through conversion to Christianity and re-ordered social relations through preaching a transnational religion which brought technological advantage.
In re-examining Apolos life the author reveals the historic social processes and the cultural motivations which provoked religious and socio-political change in colonial east Africa. She explores the processes of his religious adherence, his travels and church planting, his commitment to Bible translation and its role in developing national sensibilities, and his engagement with missionaries, the Ganda political elite, and the peoples of the Ituri forest, as well as British and Belgian colonial polities. Kivebulayautilized Christian repertoires of memory-making - the Bible, hymns, prayers and fellowship - in creating communities of disciples, and was instrumental in creating new forms of Christian identity in the region, fashioned by levelsof acceptance and resistance. By focusing on the role of indigenous agents as harbingers of change, the author offers a new perspective on the history of the northern Great Lakes region of Africa.
Emma Wild-Wood is Senior Lecturer of African Christianity and African Indigenous Religions and Co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. Her books include Migration and Christian Identity in Congo (Brill, 2008) and editing, with Joel Cabrita and David Maxwell, Relocating World Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian Faith (Brill, 2017).
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Book Title: Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya : Religious Encounter and Social Chan
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya : Religious Encounter & Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Subject: Christian Church / History, Christian Theology / General, Africa / East, Sociology of Religion
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25.8 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Emma Wild-Wood
Series: Eastern Africa Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
