Priests, Witches and Power: Popular Christianity After Mission in Southern Tanzania

By Maia Green

Book Overview

This anthropological account of a Catholic community in East Africa reveals how Catholicism came to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania and how this history currently affects practicing Catholics. Maia Green provides a descriptive account of those considering themselves Catholics in Eastern Africa in relationship to Western assumptions of conversion. She thus encourages a new approach to the consequences of large-scale shifts in religious affiliation. The book also contains information about other ritual practices concerning kinship, aging and death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521040272
• ISBN13: 9780521040273
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"