The Teso insurgency remembered: Churches, burials and propriety

Africa

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 500-516

  Jones, Ben ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHURCH ROLE; CULTURAL TRADITION; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICAL CHANGE; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE; VIOLENCE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 37349040809     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2007.77.4.500     Document Type: Article

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