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Title: | Religion and the Search for Socialism in Tanzania |
Author: | Govig, Steward D. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | Fall |
Pages: | 110-117 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | Church and State socialism ujamaa Religion and Witchcraft Politics and Government |
Abstract: | In responding to the nation's socialist initiative begun in 1967, the faithful in the three religions that coexist in Tanzania - African traditional religion, Islam, and Christianity - supported and helped shape a Tanzanian 'civil religion'. Each religion has responded to the ujaama ideals in its own way. African religion has, by and large, absorbed them and in the future will evolve its unique religiosity in the face of new challenges. The Muslims allied their faith with the ujaama changes, penetrated the TANU (Tanganyika African National Union) organization, and eventually became the most dominant group in national politics. Christianity has accommodated itself to postindependence nationalism. Within its overall worldview and sectarian heterogeneity it has adapted overseas aid and policy to national authority. Notes, ref. |