Conversion and the Alignments of Colonial Culture

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" Conversion and the Alignments of Colonial Culture "
Derek R. Peterson

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083351
Doc. No	:	LA126980
Call No	:	‭10.1163/187489411X583272‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Derek R. Peterson
Title & Author	:	Conversion and the Alignments of Colonial Culture [Article]\ Derek R. Peterson
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	24/2-3
Page No	:	207–232
Abstract	:	This essay – composed to honor Of Revelation and Revolution on its twentieth anniversary – argues that conversion was a means by which hegemonic cultural discourses were rendered subject to examination. The focus is on the East African Revival, a Christian conversion movement that began in Rwanda and spread throughout east Africa over the course of the 1940s and 50s. Following the directions given in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, revivalists sorted through cultural property, identified their sins, and set themselves in motion toward another world. Their path set them at a tangent from the dialectics of the colonial encounter. In the study of the Revival we can see conversion as a political action that unsettles the alignments of colonial culture.
Descriptor	:	CONVERSION
Descriptor	:	EAST AFRICA
Descriptor	:	HEGEMONY
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	REVIVAL
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/187489411X583272‬