Healers vs. Prayer Teams : Contesting Deliverance and Healing among Ugandan Charismatic Catholics
Book chapter
Climenhaga, Alison Marie Fitchett. (2022). Healers vs. Prayer Teams : Contesting Deliverance and Healing among Ugandan Charismatic Catholics. In Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa: Deliverance in Muslim and Christian Worlds pp. 127-143 Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350295476.0016
Authors | Climenhaga, Alison Marie Fitchett |
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Abstract | This chapter explores the tensions between individual and collective approaches to charismatic deliverance and healing – that is, healers operating as gifted individuals versus working in prayer teams accompanied and supported by a larger group of charismatics. It focuses on the deliverance and healing practices of the Bakaiso, also known as the ‘Uganda Martyrs Guild’, a Catholic charismatic movement placed under the patronage of the Uganda Martyrs, nineteenth-century Ugandans martyred in the 1880s and canonized as Catholic saints in 1964. In recent decades, the group gained a reputation for using charismatic gifts to combat witchcraft and harmful spiritual possession. A controversy that erupted in 2016 in Saint James parish, a rural parish in Fort Portal Diocese, exposed fault lines within the group concerning the appropriate nature of deliverance and healing ministries. Three popular healers associated with the Bakaiso were censured by the parish priests. |
Keywords | Anthropology of Religion; Christianity; Islam; Politics and Religion; Religious Studies |
Page range | 127-143 |
Year | 01 Jan 2022 |
Book title | Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa: Deliverance in Muslim and Christian Worlds |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
ISBN | 978-1-3502-9546-9 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350295476.0016 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781350295476&tocid=b-9781350295476-chapter7 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 29 Nov 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 25 Jan 2024 |
Additional information | Copyright © Sandra Fancello, Alessandro Gusman and contributors, 2023. |
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