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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Impact of Islam on Ganda Culture, 1844-1894 |
Author: | Kasozi, Abdu B.K. |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 127-135 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | Islam Ganda (Uganda) Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1580857 |
Abstract: | Cultural change is not only a continuous process but is also influenced by internal and external forces. Thus not only were aspect of Baganda culture continuously changing before the introduction of Islam, but Islam also accelerated these changes and in mamy cases made a profound impact on the Baganda religion before the 1840s - the coming of Islam to Buganda - the Ganda social fabric, its evolution and the impact of Islam on it - the beginning of the breakdown of the Baganda as a social unit. Notes. |