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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0173666730v| Title: | Politics, Religion and Power in the Great Lakes Region |
| Contributors: | Rutanga-Murindwa |
| Keywords: | Great Lakes Region (Africa) politics and government religion Nyabingi (African deity) women colonialism |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) |
| Place of Publication: | Dakar, Senegal |
| Series/Report no.: | CODESRIA Publications in Full Text |
| Description: | The book is organised into nine chapters. Chapter One deals with the introduction of the study and the theoretical perspective. It examines the various functions of religion in society at different levels of development and its roles to different social groups and classes. This is followed by Chapter Two, which attempts to reconstruct the pre-colonial setting, the existing modes of production, the forms of ownership, the social set-up, the levels of production and exchange, and the mode of politics. Chapter Three then analyses the nature of the religions, the material base of Nyabingi religion that facilitated it to gain supremacy over other institutions, its exploitative and oppressive character and the events that precipitated the Nyabingi Movement. Chapter Four examines the colonial invasion, the complexity of the colonisation of this region – inter-colonial rivalry, on the one hand, and the anti-colonial struggles by the indigenes, on the other. It explores the factors underlying this phenomenon and its course. Chapter Five then deals with some factors underlying the Nyabingi Movement, its objectives, its course and the various phases it went through. The chapter examines part of the Nyabingi leadership, the reasons why these resistances were defeated, and the effects of these defeats on both the actors and the movement.Based on some cases, Chapter Six analyses the role of women in these struggles, the contributions of some individual women in the leadership and the factors that led them to leadership. Chapter Seven analyses the emerging political coercion and human rights issues. It analyses the contributions and limitations of the Nyabingi Movement, and the factors that led to its decline. Chapter Eight explores the new methods of struggle, the colonial methods to undermine the movement, and the new survival methods adopted by the Nyabingi Movement, while Chapter Nine concludes the study. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0173666730v |
| ISSN: | 978-286978-492-5 978-9970-25-070-7 |
| Related resource: | http://www.codesria.org |
| Appears in Collections: | Serials and series reports (Publicly Accessible) - CODESRIA |
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