Spiritual Contestations - the Violence of Peace in South Sudan.

By: Pendle, Naomi RuthMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Religion in Transforming Africa SeriesPublisher: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2023Copyright date: �2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (323 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781800106581Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spiritual Contestations - the Violence of Peace in South SudanDDC classification: 327.17209629 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I Histories and Archives of Peace and Impunity -- Introduction -- 1 Priestly peace and the Divinity of the Gun -- 2 Peace-making during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium -- Part II Negotiating Peace -- 3 Regulating the Proliferation of Divine Power: Wars 1980s-2000s -- 4 'Local peace' and the Silencing of the Dead: The 1999 Wunlit Peace Meeting -- 5 The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement -- 6 The Proliferation of Conflict in Gogrial, post-2005 -- 7 The Proliferation of Peace in Gogrial, 2005-2020 -- 8 The Baany e Biith and the Logics of Peace-making in Gogrial, 2005-2020 -- 9 Cosmological Crisis and Continuing Conflict in Unity State, 2005-2013 -- 10 Prophetic Proliferations: Making Peace in Unity State, 2005-2013 -- Part III The Logics of Peace and the Shape of War -- 11 A War for the Dead and Wars Made by Peace -- 12 Prophets Making Peace: Peace-making in Unity State, post-2013 -- 13 Peace and Unending Wars in Warrap State post-2013 -- 14 The Problems of Forgiveness, 2013-2020 -- Conclusion: The Cosmic Politics of Peace in South Sudan -- Bibliography -- Index -- Previously published titles in the series.
Summary: A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control.
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Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I Histories and Archives of Peace and Impunity -- Introduction -- 1 Priestly peace and the Divinity of the Gun -- 2 Peace-making during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium -- Part II Negotiating Peace -- 3 Regulating the Proliferation of Divine Power: Wars 1980s-2000s -- 4 'Local peace' and the Silencing of the Dead: The 1999 Wunlit Peace Meeting -- 5 The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement -- 6 The Proliferation of Conflict in Gogrial, post-2005 -- 7 The Proliferation of Peace in Gogrial, 2005-2020 -- 8 The Baany e Biith and the Logics of Peace-making in Gogrial, 2005-2020 -- 9 Cosmological Crisis and Continuing Conflict in Unity State, 2005-2013 -- 10 Prophetic Proliferations: Making Peace in Unity State, 2005-2013 -- Part III The Logics of Peace and the Shape of War -- 11 A War for the Dead and Wars Made by Peace -- 12 Prophets Making Peace: Peace-making in Unity State, post-2013 -- 13 Peace and Unending Wars in Warrap State post-2013 -- 14 The Problems of Forgiveness, 2013-2020 -- Conclusion: The Cosmic Politics of Peace in South Sudan -- Bibliography -- Index -- Previously published titles in the series.

A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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