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Title: | The Emergence of Politico-Religious Groupings in Late Nineteenth-Century Buganda |
Author: | Twaddle, Michael |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 81-92 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | Christianity associations Buganda polity Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/182240 |
Abstract: | This article reconsiders the emergence of politico-religious groupings in the kingdom of Buganda in the late 19th century, in the light of historical writings and research since 1952. It accepts the view that the Christian martyrdoms of the mid-1880s need to be taken seriously as an influence upon later Christian fanaticism. However, the link to later fanaticism was only politically established during the course of the Ganda succession war of 1888-1890, when Kalema's establishment of an Islamic State in Buganda prompted the creation of rival Protestant and Roman Catholic politico-religious groupings. The writer therefore questions the view that European missionaries were primarily responsible for the emergence of political competition between Anglican and Roman Catholic Christians in Buganda. Nonetheless, when politico-religious groupings did emerge during the succession war, both Church Missionary Society missionaries and the White Fathers were important in ensuring that the two rival groupings did not abort themselves. Notes, ref. |