RT Article
T1 'Everything is Plastic': The Faith of Unity Movement and the Making of a Post-Catholic Religion in Uganda
JF Journal for the study of religion
VO 31
IS 2
SP 138
OP 160
A1 Ukah, Asonzeh Franklin-Kennedy 1965-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663237778
AB One of David Chidester's long-term fascinations in the academic study of religion is his nuanced scrutiny of the sensorial features of contemporary religious life. Chidester uses an approach of multi-sensorial imagination of matter to investigate the plasticity and elasticity of religion to innovate and accommodate changing religious and spiritual desires and how such adaptions ensure the popularity of religious participation in a contemporary, technology-saturated society. Based on an ethnographic investigation of a new religious movement in Uganda, this essay mobilizes some of the analytical concepts developed by Chidester to think through the material dynamics of African religious life in the context of changing socio-economic, cultural, and political contexts of Africa.
K1 African Religion
K1 David Chidester
K1 Faith of Unity
K1 Owobusobozi
K1 Material Religion
K1 post-Catholic
DO 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/v31n2a6