Displacing the state : religion and conflict in neoliberal Africa

Religious dimensions of conflict and peace in a neoliberal Africa: an introduction / James Howard Smith. - Forgiveness with consequences: scriptures, Qené, and traditions of restorative justice in nineteenth-century Ethiopia / Charles Schaefer. - Making peace with the devil: the political life of devil worship rumors in Kenya / James Howard Smith. - The Mungiki movement: a source of religio-political conflict in Kenya / Grace Nyatugah Wamue-Ngare. - Magic as identity maker: conflict and militia formation in eastern Congo / Koen Vlassenroot. - Religion, politics, and gender in Zimbabwe: the Masowe apostles and Chimurenga religion / Isabel Mukonyora. - "Devil bustin' satellites": how media liberalization in Africa generates religious intolerance and conflict / Rosalind I.J. Hackett. - Mediating armageddon: popular Christian video films as a source of conflict in Nigeria / Asonzeh F.-K. Ukah. - "The domestic relations bill" and inter-religious conflict in Uganda: a Muslim reading of personal law and religious pluralism in a postcolonial society / Abasi Kiyimba. Met bibliogr., index, noten. XI, 299 p. ; 23 cm