Spiritual Contestations - the Violence of Peace in South Sudan.

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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Superior document:Religion in Transforming Africa Series ; v.12
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Place / Publishing House:Woodbridge : : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,, 2023.
Ã2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Religion in Transforming Africa Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (323 pages)
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Table of 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.