Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Matthew Muriuki Karangi Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 336 ISBN: 9783659344879
Описание
The Kenyan history is weaved with the interplay of quintessential religio-political factors. In the past, some of the most important agents were the imperialist, missionaries, scholars and the adherents of African religions and philosophy. The history of central Kenya underlines that the Colonial government, the Missionaries, the African scholars and the Gikuyu elders collaborated in the forging and invention of the Gikuyu identity as we know it today. In the construction of the history, the sacred Mugumo was shrouded with religio-political power and used by the elders for social and religio-political control of the group. It was this religio-political symbiosis which was celebrated and ritualised around this traditional African shrine. Moreover, the sacred Mugumo prepared the ground for the evangelisation in the Gikuyu land and the political hegemony based on power-knowledge and control. Revisiting an African shrine through the sacred Mugumo tree will help the readers...