“Except You Be Born of Water and the Spirit, You Cannot Enter into the Kingdom”: The Social Meaning of Baptism in Toro, Uganda 1890–1910

The role of rituals as forces for social change in Christian mission history can be over looked particularly where the rituals are adopted from a Protestant church. Through the examination of the performance – setting, characters, script and sounds – of an early Anglican baptism in Toro, Western Uga...

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Auteur principal: Wild-Wood, Emma (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2023
Dans: Social sciences and missions
Année: 2023, Volume: 36, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 179-200
Sujets non-standardisés:B Baptism
B Rituel
B Ouganda
B Uganda
B Anglican
B Baptême
B Performance
B Anglicanisme
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Résumé:The role of rituals as forces for social change in Christian mission history can be over looked particularly where the rituals are adopted from a Protestant church. Through the examination of the performance – setting, characters, script and sounds – of an early Anglican baptism in Toro, Western Uganda, this article illustrates how this ritual was used to enact and affect the values and objectives of a new society in its immediate context and in transnational frame of reference. The article argues for renewed historical attention to rituals as embodiments of change.
ISSN:1874-8945
Contient:Enthalten in: Social sciences and missions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18748945-bja10065