The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic Church in Western Uganda

Journal of Religion in Africa

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-58

  Behrend, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cannibalism; Roman catholic church; Uganda martyrs guild; Witchcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 61949408388     PISSN: 00224200     EISSN: 15700666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157006607X166582     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Ardener, Edwin, 1970. 'Witchcraft, Economics, and the Continuity of Belief, in Mary Douglas (ed,), Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations. London: Tavistock Publications, 141-160.
2. Behrend, Heike. 1997. 'Das Wunder von Sembabule: Die kurze Geschichte eines Anti-AIDS-Kultes in Uganda. Anthropos, 92, 175-183.
3. -. 1999. Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda. Oxford: James Currey.
4. -. 2001. 'Salvation and Terror in Western Uganda. The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God', in Jan Lodewijk Grootaers (ed.), Millenarian Movements in Africa and the Diaspora (Bulletin des seances supplement). Brussels: Belgian Association of Africanists, 77-96.
5. -. 2004. '"Satan gekreuzigt": Interner Terror und Katharsis in Tooro, Westuganda. Historische Anthropologic 12, 2, 211-227.
6. -. 2006a. 'Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in Tooro, Western Uganda, in Michael Bollig, Aparna Rao and Monika Boeck (eds.), The Practice of War, in press.
7. -. 2006b. 'Witchcraft, Evidence and the Localization of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Uganda', in Richard Rottenburg, Burkhard Schnepel, Shingo Shimada (eds.), The Making and Unmaking of Differences. Bielefeld: Transcript, 43-59.
8. Behringer, Wolfgang. 1987. Hexenverfolgung in Bayern. Munich: Oldenbourg.
9. Bowen, Elenore Smith. 1954. Return to Laughter. New York: Natural History Library Edition.
10. Colson, Elizabeth. 2000. 'The Father as Witch'. Africa 70, 3, 333-358.
11. Comaroff, Jean, and John Comaroff (eds.). 1993. Modernity and its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
12. Comaroff, Jean, and John Comaroff. 1999. 'Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony'. American Ethnologist 26, 2, 279-303.
13. Derrida, Jacques. 2001. 'Glaube und Wissen. Die beiden Quellen der "Religion" an den Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft', in Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattima (eds.), Die Religion. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
14. de Vries, Hent. 2001. 'In Media Res: Global Religion, Public Spheres, and the Task of Contemporary Comparative Religious Studies', in Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber (eds), Religion and Media. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 3-42.
15. Douglas, Mary. 1999. 'Sorcery Accusations Unleashed: The Lele Revisted, 1987'. Africa 69, 2, 177-193.
16. Fisiy, Cyprian F., and Peter Geschiere. 2001. 'Witchcraft, Development and Paranoia in Cameroon' in Henrietta Moore and Todd Sanders (eds.), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities. London and New York: Roudedge, 226-246.
17. Geschiere, Peter. 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
18. Gifford, Paul. 2004. Ghana's New Christianity. London: Hurst & Co.
19. Goode, Erich, and Nachman Ben-Yehuda. 1994. Moral Panics:, The Social Construction of Deviance. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
20. Green, Maia. 2003. Priests, Witches and Power: Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
21. Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2000. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
22. Kassimir, Ron. 1991. 'Complex Martyrs: Symbols of Catholic Church Formation and Political Differentiation in Uganda. African Affairs 90, 357-382.
23. -. 1999. 'The Politics of Popular Catholicism in Uganda, in Thomas Spear and Isaria Kimambo (eds.), East African Expressions of Christianity. Oxford: James Currey, 248-274.
24. Lonsdale, John. 1992. 'The Moral Economy of Mau Mau', in Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale (eds.), Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa. London: James Currey.
25. Machein, Henning. 2000. 'AIDS, Wissen und Macht in Afrika: Zur Produktion von Wissen in der Aidsprävention in Mali'. MA thesis, Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne.
26. Meyer, Birgit. 1999. Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
27. -. 2003. 'Visions of Blood, Sex and Money: Fantasy Spaces in Popular Ghanaian Cinema'. Visual Anthropology 16, 15-41.
28. Meyer, Birgit, and Peter Pels (eds.). 2003. Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
29. Moore, Henrietta, and Todd Sanders (eds.). 2001. Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Africa. London and New York: Routledge.
30. Sanders, Todd. 2001. 'Save our Skins: Structural Adjustment, Morality and the Occult in Tanzania', in Henrietta Moore and Todd Sanders (eds.), Magical Interpretations, Materail Realities. London and New York: Routledge, 160-183.
31. Shaw, Rosalind. 2001. 'Cannibal Transformations: Colonialism and Commodification in the Sierra Leone Hinterland', in Henrietta Moore and Todd Sanders (eds.), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities. London and New York: Roudedge, 50-70.
32. Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew Strathern. 1999. 'Feasting on my Enemy: Images of Violence and Change in the New Guinea Highlands'. Ethnohistory 46, 4.
33. Thomas, Nicholas. 1991. Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
34. Turner, Victor. 1967. 'Witchcraft and Sorcery: Taxonomy versus Dynamics', in The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
35. White, Luise. 2000. Speaking with Vampires: Rumour and History in Colonial Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press.
36. Yamba, C. Bawa. 1997. 'Cosmologies in Turmoil: Witchcraft and Aids in Chiawa, Zambia. Africa 67, 2, 200-23.