The Thing Behind the Thing: Christian Responses to Traditional Practices of Acknowledgement in Uganda
Joanna Quinn Wednesday, 9 June 2010
In Uganda, it has recently become fashionable to urge the use of traditional mechanisms to socially acknowledge past abuses inflicted during conflict. Yet little is understood about how or why such practices work or whether their use ought to be supported. As one piece of a larger study of traditional practices, I have conducted 56 interviews with religious leaders in Uganda. This article draws on this original research to consider the role and influence of Uganda's Christian leaders on the use of traditional practices. It considers the stands that six major Christian groups have taken on the use of such traditional practices, before turning to their consideration of the use of "neo-traditional" practices.
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