Mozambique: religious practices and post-conflict processes
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Mozambique: religious practices and post-conflict processes |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 3137 |
Book Title | The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide |
Authors | |
Author | Igreja, Victor |
Editors | Brown, Sara E. and Smith, Stephen D. |
Page Range | 331-342 |
Series | Routledge Handbooks in Religion |
Chapter Number | 30 |
Number of Pages | 12 |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of Publication | Abingdon, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9780367321505 |
9780429317026 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429317026 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429317026-36/mozambique-victor-igreja?context=ubx&refId=cb9ef0a8-7f18-43d2-ab20-125a1d0bc954 |
Abstract | In sub-Saharan Africa, diverse religious beliefs and practices have been implicated in mass violence as well as post-conflict peacebuilding processes. In Mozambique—following the political turmoils of colonialism, short-lived postcolonial socialist revolution, and a protracted civil war—communities drew on histories of survival experiences, religious imaginaries, and gender relations to address the challenges of post-conflict social and moral recovery. A comprehensive understanding of the role of diverse religious imaginaries in post-conflict reconstruction requires a closer look at how Indigenous religious practices intensify and contain violence. In Gorongosa, a district in the center of Mozambique, the gamba spirits of male dead soldiers return to the world of the living to intrusively possess women’s bodies and wreak havoc, demanding accountability for serious violations perpetrated in the past. Embodied accountability is at once a social, moral, health, and religious process that blurs gender and temporalities of conflicts and suffering as part of the post-conflict recovery and healing efforts in Mozambique. |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500402. Comparative religious studies |
441004. Social change | |
441014. Sociology of religion | |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6yvq/mozambique-religious-practices-and-post-conflict-processes
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