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dc.contributor.authorAlava, Henni
dc.contributor.authorShroff, Catrine
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-06T11:33:56Z
dc.date.available2021-04-25T21:35:08Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationAlava, H., & Shroff, C. (2019). Unravelling Church Land : Transformations in the Relations between Church, State and Community in Uganda. <i>Development and Change</i>, <i>50</i>(5), 1288-1309. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12503" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12503</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_30536433
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_81260
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/65452
dc.description.abstractChristian churches control substantial areas of land in Africa. While intensifying struggles over their holdings are partly due to the increased pressure on land in general, they also reflect transformations in the relations through which churches’ claims to land are legitimized, the increased association of churches with business, and churches’ unique positioning as both institutions and communities. This article presents the trajectory of relations between church, state and community in Uganda from the missionary acquisition of land in the colonial era to the unravelling of church landholding under Museveni. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork, the authors argue that claims to church land in contemporary Uganda draw on: 1) notions of belonging to the land; 2) views about the nature of churches as communities; 3) discontent regarding whether customary land owners gave churches user rights or ownership; and 4) assessment of the churches’ success in ensuring that the land works for the common good. The article develops a novel approach to analysing the changing meaning of the landholdings of religious institutions, thus extending ongoing discussions about land, politics, development and religion in Africa.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDevelopment and Change
dc.rightsIn Copyright
dc.subject.otherUganda
dc.subject.otherAfrikka
dc.subject.otherchurch
dc.subject.otherstate
dc.subject.othercommunity
dc.subject.otherland
dc.subject.otherbelonging
dc.subject.otherAfrica
dc.titleUnravelling Church Land : Transformations in the Relations between Church, State and Community in Uganda
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201909064045
dc.contributor.laitosYhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Social Sciences and Philosophyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineKansainvälinen kehitystutkimusfi
dc.contributor.oppiaineInternational Development Studiesen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2019-09-06T09:15:17Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange1288-1309
dc.relation.issn0012-155X
dc.relation.numberinseries5
dc.relation.volume50
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2019 International Institute of Social Studies
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dc.relation.grantnumber285815
dc.subject.ysovaltio (instituutio)
dc.subject.ysokirkko (instituutio)
dc.subject.ysomaanomistus
dc.subject.ysopaikallisyhteisöt
dc.subject.ysooikeutus
dc.subject.ysolegitimiteetti
dc.format.contentfulltext
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p2538
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p8835
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p7147
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p10997
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p23066
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p15854
dc.rights.urlhttp://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
dc.relation.doi10.1111/dech.12503
dc.relation.funderSuomen Akatemiafi
dc.relation.funderResearch Council of Finlanden
jyx.fundingprogramAkatemiahanke, SAfi
jyx.fundingprogramAcademy Project, AoFen
jyx.fundinginformationHenni Alava's research was enabled by funding from the Finnish Graduate School in Development Studies and the Academy of Finland‐funded research project ‘Growth into Citizenship in Civil Society Encounters’ at the University of Jyväskylä. Catrine Shroff's work was funded by the DANIDA‐funded research project ‘Governing Transition in Northern Uganda: Trust and Land’ (12‐056AU) at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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