Ujamaa, Small Christian Communities, and Moral Reform in Western Tanzania, 1960s-1990

This article examines the efforts of Small Christian Communities (in Kiswahili, Jumuiya Ndogo Ndogo za Kikristo) to carve out a separate space of moral reform and regulation beyond the spheres of ujamaa and state authority between the 1960s and 1990. These communities served as platforms for express...

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Главный автор: Nyanto, Salvatory S. 19XX- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: The Catholic University of America Press 2020
В: The catholic historical review
Год: 2020, Том: 106, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 312-334
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Tansania / Социализм / Католическая церковь (мотив) / Деревенская община / История (мотив) 1960-1990
Индексация IxTheo:CG Христианство и политика
CH Христианство и общество
KAJ Новейшее время
KBN Черная Африка
KDB Католическая церковь
Другие ключевые слова:B Ujamaa villages
B Moral Reform
B Christian communities; Catholic Church
B Tanzania
B Tanzanian Socialism (Ujamaa)
B Western Tanzania
B Arusha Declaration
B Collective settlements; Tanzania
B Small Christian Communities
B Christian Ethics
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Итог:This article examines the efforts of Small Christian Communities (in Kiswahili, Jumuiya Ndogo Ndogo za Kikristo) to carve out a separate space of moral reform and regulation beyond the spheres of ujamaa and state authority between the 1960s and 1990. These communities served as platforms for expressing ideas and addressing social concerns arising from members. They also controlled converts’ demeanors and adjudicated issues related to moral laxity, marriage conflicts, and conjugal relations where ujamaa policies and the state had little to do with these issues. Nonetheless, like ujamaa villages, Christian Communities faced numerous challenges leading to the collapse of some of these communities in western Tanzania. This study builds on the scholarship which provides a model for understanding historically and culturally constructed institutions within their specific settings to show how sociocultural and political environments shaped Christian Communities, but also to understand the limits of ujamaa as well as its influence.
This article examines the efforts of Small Christian Communities (in Kiswahili, Jumuiya Ndogo Ndogo za Kikristo) to carve out a separate space of moral reform and regulation beyond the spheres of ujamaa and state authority between the 1960s and 1990. These communities served as platforms for expressing ideas and addressing social concerns arising from members. They also controlled converts’ demeanors and adjudicated issues related to moral laxity, marriage conflicts, and conjugal relations where ujamaa policies and the state had little to do with these issues. Nonetheless, like ujamaa villages, Christian Communities faced numerous challenges leading to the collapse of some of these communities in western Tanzania. This study builds on the scholarship which provides a model for understanding historically and culturally constructed institutions within their specific settings to show how sociocultural and political environments shaped Christian Communities, but also to understand the limits of ujamaa as well as its influence.
ISSN:1534-0708
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/cat.2020.0043