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Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda is a significant contribution to the literature on religion and politics in Africa. Henni Alava nicely balances an openness to both the religious claims of her research subjects and the embeddedness of church structures in political realities. Highly recommended. * Todd Whitmore, Associate Professor of Moral Theology and Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame, USA * The messiness and mundanity of life lived in the aftermath of war is the subject of Henni Alava's sensitive and insightful book. With perspicacity, she illuminates how Catholics and Anglicans in Acholiland, Uganda talk about confusion as they seek peace and observe political conflict within the institutions that offer them hope. * Emma Wild-Wood, Senior Lecturer, African Christianity and African Indigenous Religions, University of Edinburgh, UK *

"A welcome addition to and extension of the anthropology of northern Uganda and that of Christianity ... Alava has a gift for holding herself back just enough while paying attention, allowing the research participants the time and space to unfold themselves. * Journal of Religion in Africa * Alava’s work [is] an engaging form of scholarship — anthropology as accompaniment — that both questions and extends the boundaries of the discipline. Scholars interested in the relation between church and state, and in the role Christianity plays in Africa’s social history marked with violence and political uncertainty, will have a lot to learn. * The Living Church * Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda is a significant contribution to the literature on religion and politics in Africa. Henni Alava nicely balances an openness to both the religious claims of her research subjects and the embeddedness of church structures in political realities. Highly recommended. * Todd Whitmore, Associate Professor of Moral Theology and Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame, USA * The messiness and mundanity of life lived in the aftermath of war is the subject of Henni Alava’s sensitive and insightful book. With perspicacity, she illuminates how Catholics and Anglicans in Acholiland, Uganda talk about confusion as they seek peace and observe political conflict within the institutions that offer them hope. * Emma Wild-Wood, Senior Lecturer, African Christianity and African Indigenous Religions, University of Edinburgh, UK * This book presents a captivating experience of slow ethnography, skilfully utilizing and expanding local tropes such as the vivid meanings behind ""confusion"" and ""standing atop an anthill."" These locally generated concepts are truly thought-provoking and have a captivating effect on the reader's imagination. Within its pages, the book delves into the ethical and methodological dimensions of silence after war…. [It] is abundant in ethnographic depth and theoretical sophistication. * En-Chieh Chao, member of Geertz Prize Committee *"

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Henni Alava is Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University.

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