description: This anthropological account of a Catholic community in East Africa reveals how Catholicism came to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania and how this history currently affects practicing Catholics. Maia Green provides a descriptive account of those considering themselves Catholics in Eastern Africa in relationship to Western assumptions of "conversion". She thus encourages a new approach to the consequences of large-scale shifts in religious affiliation. The book also contains information about other ritual practices concerning kinship, aging and death.
language: English
title: Priests, Witches and Power: Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania
titlecomplete: Priests, Witches and Power: Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 112)
ratings_count: 2
series: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology
publisher: Cambridge University Press