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Author Vokes, Richard

Title Ghosts of Kanungu : fertility, secrecy & exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa / Richard Vokes
Published Kampala, Uganda : Fountain Publishers ; Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages, 3 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series African anthropology
African anthropology.
Contents Prologue : The End as a Beginning; 1. Introduction; 2. On Fertility & Misfortune; 3. The Many Lives of the Nyabingi Spirit; 4. Genesis : Building the Network; 5. Numbers : Religion in the time of AIDS; 6. Chronicles : The History of an African-Initiated Church; 7. Revelation : The Last Days of the MRTC; Epilogue; Appendix. Marian Literature Used by the MRTC
Summary On 17 March 2000 several hundred members of a charismatic Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), burnt to death in the group's headquarters in the Southwest Ugandan village of Kanungu. Days later the Uganda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-233) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.
SUBJECT Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God fast
Bewegung zur Wiederherstellung der Zehn Gebote gnd
Subject Fires -- Casualties -- Uganda -- Kanungu
Mass burials -- Uganda -- Kanungu
Fire investigation -- Uganda -- Kanungu
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Fire investigation
Fires -- Casualties
Mass burials
Social conditions
Brandkatastrophe
Fruchtbarkeitskult
Chiliasmus
Aids
SUBJECT Kanungu (Uganda) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Uganda -- Kanungu
Kanungu
Uganda -- Südwest
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846157271
1846157277