On the Religious and the Secular in Nineteenth-Century Buganda

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI:10.1163/15700666-12340318
Tyler Zoanni
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The case of nineteenth-century Buganda opens up a number of assumptions within scholarship about religion, secularity, and politics in African history. Although much scholarship focuses on European colonizers introduced alien categories such as religion and imposed distinctions between religion and politics, this paper foregrounds a different set of historical transformations in what is now Uganda – transformations that ultimately increased rather than diminished connections between the exercise of political power and markedly religious convictions. Along the way, it locates some of the most important pieces of this story in ‘the precolonial’. This allows the paper to trace the emergence of the category of religion, as well as analyze the sense in which it is meaningful to think of precolonial Buganda as secular at a particular moment. In so doing, the paper puts an African story in dialogue with wider conversations on the secular.
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论十九世纪布干达的宗教与世俗
19 世纪布干达的案例揭示了学术界对非洲历史中宗教、世俗性和政治的一些假设。尽管许多学术研究侧重于欧洲殖民者引入宗教等外来范畴,并强加宗教与政治之间的区别,但本文强调的是现在的乌干达发生的一系列不同的历史变革--这些变革最终加强而非削弱了政治权力的行使与明显的宗教信仰之间的联系。在这一过程中,本文将这一故事中最重要的一些片段放在了 "前殖民时期"。这使得本文能够追溯宗教类别的出现,并分析在特定时刻将前殖民时期的布干达视为世俗的意义。这样,本文将一个非洲故事与更广泛的世俗对话联系起来。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Religion in Africa was founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken over by Adrian Hastings, who retired in 1999. His successor, David Maxwell, acted as Executive Editor until the end of 2005. The Journal of Religion in Africa is interested in all religious traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa, and it is open to every methodology. Its contributors include scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science, missiology, literature and related disciplines. It occasionally publishes religious texts in their original African language.
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