What is it about?
The article discusses how indigenous religions make sense of political unity or the lack thereof. It draws on the Faith of Unity, based on Uganda and the Waqqeffana religious association, based in Ethiopia to analyse perspectives and criticisms forwarded by indigenous religions about the political developments both in historic and contemporary Africa.
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Why is it important?
It is an intervention to challenge the assumption that indigenous religions are less political or are disinterested in overt political engagement, in comparison for instance, with the so called institutional religions like Islam and Christianity. It also offers more perspectives on the notion of politics and political subjectivities as well as the reinvention religious spaces to do politics by ordinary citizens in highly authoritarian and repressive systems.
Perspectives
Writing this article has enabled me tell stories of religiously embodied subjects who, through the medium of religion make sense of their political lives. I hope the readers also find it as interesting and engaging as I hope.
Debele Serawit
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This page is a summary of: Confronting “Disunity”: Indigenous Religions as Critics of Politics in Africa, Journal of Africana Religions, January 2018, The Pennsylvania State University Press,
DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.6.2.0190.
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