New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity

Naomi Haynes, University of Edinburgh, UK, Jon Bialecki, University of Edinburgh, UK, Hillary Kaell, Concordia University, USA & James S. Bielo, Miami University, USA

Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda

There is Confusion

Henni Alava, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Sheds light on the complex relationships of Christianity, politics, peace and war in Africa and beyond. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda’s largest religious communities, this book provides a critical assessment of the Catholic and Anglican Churches’ societal role following the war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350301986 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350175808 ePub 9781350175822 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350175839 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity • Bloomsbury Academic

Mediating Catholicism

Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries

Edited by Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, Marc Roscoe Loustau, College of the Holy Cross, USA & Kristin Norget, McGill University, Canada

This is the first book to focus specifically on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic mediascape, analyzing the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, SouthEast Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350228207 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350228177 ePub 9781350228191 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350228184 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity Bloomsbury Academic