Displacing the state: religion and conflict in neoliberal Africa

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1 Forgiveness with Consequences -- 2 Making Peace with the Devil -- New Religious Movements, Enduring Social Tensions -- 3 The Mungiki Movement -- 4 Magic as Identity Maker -- 5 Religion, Politics, and Gender in Zimbabwe -- Part 3 -- 6 "Devil Bustin' Satellites" -- 7 Mediating Armageddon -- 8 "The Domestic Relations Bill" and Inter-Religious Conflict in Uganda -- Contributors -- Index.

Religious dimensions of conflict and peace in a neoliberal Africa: an introduction / James Howard Smith -- Forgiveness with consequences: scriptures, Qené, and traditions of restorative justice in nineteenth-century Ethiopia / Charles Schaefer -- Making peace with the devil: the political life of devil worship rumors in Kenya / James Howard Smith -- The Mungiki movement: a source of religio-political conflict in Kenya / Grace Nyatugah Wamue-Ngare -- Magic as identity maker: conflict and militia formation in eastern Congo / Koen Vlassenroot -- Religion, politics, and gender in Zimbabwe: the Masowe apostles and Chimurenga religion / Isabel Mukonyora -- "Devil bustin' satellites": how media liberalization in Africa generates religious intolerance and conflict / Rosalind I. J. Hackett -- Mediating armageddon: popular Christian video films as a source of conflict in Nigeria / Asonzeh F.-K. Ukah -- "The domestic relations bill" and inter-religious conflict in Uganda: a Muslim reading of personal law and religious pluralism in a postcolonial society / Abasi Kiyimba