Spiritual contestations: the violence of peace in South Sudan
A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Woodbridge
James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Religion in transforming Africa
v.12 |
| Further subjects: | B
Political conflict
B Einflussgröße B Staat Südsudan B Civil war B History B Peacekeeping forces B Internal policy B Framing (social sciences) Journalism B Pacific settlement of international disputes B Conflict B Cause B Violent behavior B Warrap |
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| Summary: | A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control. Introduction -- PART I: Histories and Archives of Peace and Impunity -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Priestly peace and the Divinity of the Gun: The Coming of Government in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 2 Sacred Authority and Judicial Peace: Peace-making during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium -- PART II: Negotiating Peace -- Chapter 3 Regulating the Proliferation of Divine Power: Wars 1980s-2000s -- Chapter 4 'Local peace' and the Silencing of the Dead: The 1999 Wunlit Peace Meeting -- Chapter 5 The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement -- Chapter 6 The Proliferation of Conflict in Gogrial, post-2005 -- Chapter 7 The Proliferation of Peace in Gogrial, 2005-2020 -- Chapter 8 For Peace or Payment? The Baany e Biith and the Logics of Peace-making in Gogrial, 2005-2020 -- Chapter 9 Cosmological Crisis and Continuing Conflict in Unity State, 2005-2013 -- Chapter 10 Prophetic Proliferations: Making Peace in Unity State, 2005-2013 -- PART III: Logics of Peace and the Shape of War -- Chapter 11 A War for the Dead and Wars Made by Peace -- Chapter 12 Prophets Making Peace: Peace-making in Unity State, post-2013 -- Chapter 13 Peace and Unending Wars in Warrap State post-2013 -- Chapter 14 The Problems of Forgiveness, 2013-2020 -- Conclusion: The Cosmic Politics of Peace in South Sudan |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 306 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80010-657-4 |
