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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathon L. Earle (Royalty Account) , J.J. CarneyPublisher: James Currey Imprint: James Currey Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9781847013651ISBN 10: 1847013651 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 16 May 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction: Catholic Democracy and Political Duress in Colonial Uganda Benedicto Kiwanuka, Catholic Uganda and the Gospel of Democracy Republicanism and Secession in Tesoland and Rwenzururu Catholic Violence and Political Revolution in Bunyoro and Kigezi Acholi Alliances and Party Insurrection in Ankole Catholic Patronage and Royalist Alternatives in Buganda ""I offer today my body and blood"": Violence, Resistance, and Martyrdom Conclusion: Memory and Memorialisation"ReviewsThe book is an important work of intellectual history. It is likewise an important work for Uganda, helping to reveal the connections between controversies and contexts that are often seen and studied in isolation. * Africa is a Country * The sources that Earle and Carney have been able to make use of here take us well beyond the traditional institutional archives used to examine religion and politics ... it is difficult to imagine a more complete biography of Kiwanuka being published. -- Journal of Ecclesiastical History For a few short months Benedicto Kiwanuka wielded power as Uganda's first prime minister. Most of his political career, however, was spent in the opposition; and at the end he was martyred by President Idi Amin. In this insightful biography, Earle and Carney draw from Kiwanuka's private library and illuminate the logic of his politics. Here we see Uganda's history as Kiwanuka saw it: as a drama that demanded both principled clarity and pragmatic flexibility. This book gives religious history an exciting new vocation, and greatly expands the scope and scale of political biography. -- Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan Earle and Carney's work sheds radically new understanding on the dramatic history of Uganda. It is centred on the Democratic Party and its staunch Catholic leader Ben Kiwanuka, who led the country to independence before being jailed by Obote and murdered by Idi Amin. Roman Catholics, the largest religious group in Uganda, have been politically discriminated against since the 1890s. This book challenges brilliantly Uganda's biased historical narrative and puts back Contesting Catholics where they belong, at the centre of the country's nation building. -- Henri Medard, Aix Marseille Universite - Institut des Mondes Africains By drawing on hitherto unused sources, and paying careful attention to regional complexities, Jay Carney and Jonathon Earle tell a new story of how religion inflected politics in twentieth century Uganda. Contesting Catholics is not merely about Catholic politics in the home of Africa's first canonized martyrs, rather it reframes our understanding of Ugandan history in the late colonial and postcolonial periods writ large. Moreover, the book delivers compelling insights about how to conceptualize the place of religion in politics in Africa and beyond. -- Elizabeth A. Foster, Tufts University The authors of this book have mined personal papers, especially of their major subject, Benedicto Kiwanuka and other decolonization political actors in Uganda. They interviewed key witnesses of the late colonial and early post-colonial period, mastered local languages, including Luganda and Ateso, in order to read the literature first-hand. They also utilized archives in Uganda, Britain and the United States, in order to write an outstanding book on one of the leading Ugandan nationalists, Benedicto Kiwanuka, a leader of the Democratic Party who sought to build a united Uganda. I highly recommend this book for any student or researcher wishing to understand Uganda's religious and political history. -- Samwiri Lwanga-Lunyiigo, Makerere University This study throws a powerful searchlight on a critical population in Uganda struggling for political and social freedoms in the country immediately before and after Independence from Britain. -- Michael Twaddle, Institute of Commonwealth Studies This carefully researched and elegantly written story of admirable twentieth-century Ugandan Catholic layman Benedicto Kiwanuka shows how the political party he led was thwarted in Uganda's early years. Regional and ethnic differences stretched its pursuit of Catholic values while seeking national unity and blocked its electoral hopes. Carney and Earle demonstrate the oversimplification of earlier accounts of how religiously inflected politics tragically undermined Uganda's first few decades. -- Paul Kollman, CSC, University of Notre Dame ...covers the religious milieu of the 1950s and 1960s, and the era's complicated politics, connecting Kiwanuka and Catholicism to party formation, ethnicity, and the making of a new Uganda and new Ugandan political elite and set of practices. ... a well-researched, careful exploration of a complex, understudied, fascinating time. * Carol Summers, University of Richmond * In a context in which thinking about current politics and the history of politics in Uganda fall into well-worn, fundamentally unproductive habits of thought, the authors prove that basic assumptions about religion in Ugandan politics are deeply flawed. ... a superb book, meticulously evidenced and insightfully contextualized. * Holly Hanson, Mount Holyoke College * Author InformationJONATHON L. EARLE is the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Social Studies at Centre College and co-author of Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda. J.J. Carney is Associate Professor of Theology, Creighton University, and author of Rwanda before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era (2014), which won the Ogot award. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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