{"product_id":"unruly-ideas-a-history-of-kitawala-in-congo-paperback-softback-9780821426081","title":"Unruly Ideas; A History of Kitawala in Congo (Paperback \/ softback) 9780821426081","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnruly Ideas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Kitawala in Congo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicole Eggers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821426081\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.436 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnruly Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e is an original, refreshing, one-of-a-kind study about power, invisible and holistic power. How Congolese Kitawalists displayed 'intellectual agency' and challenged European 'hoarders of power' by carving out their own political space and by availing themselves of religious and thaumaturgic possibilities is at the heart of Nicole Eggers’s fine-grained narrative. - Ch. Didier Gondola, author of Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa Nicole Eggers has written an engaging, original, and important account of the Kitawalist religious movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from the 1930s to recent times, packed with the results of years of archival and oral research. - David M. Gordon, author of Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the multifaceted history of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala from its colonial beginnings in the 1920s through its continued practice in some of the most conflict-riven parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo today. Drawing on a rich body of original oral, ethnographic, and archival research, Nicole Eggers uses Kitawala as a lens through which to address the complex relationship between politics, religion, healing, and violence in central African history.\u003cbr\u003e Kitawala, which has roots in the African Watchtower (Jehovah’s Witness) movement, has long been viewed both by scholars and by popular historians as a form of male-dominated, anticolonial insurgency. But just as Kitawalists were never exclusively male, their teachings and activities were never directed solely at the Belgian colonial state, and their yearnings for self-rule were never entirely about the secular realms of authority. A more comprehensive look at the oral and archival evidence reveals they were and are concerned with the morality of power more broadly: on state, communal, and individual levels. Moreover, Kitawalist doctrine is itself unruly, and its preachers, prophets, and practitioners have articulated innumerable interpretations-most quite different from Watchtower Christianity-across space and time.\u003cbr\u003e More than a case study of a particular religious movement, \u003ci\u003eUnruly Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e is a conceptual history of power that investigates how communities and individuals in the region have historically imagined power, sought to access it, wielded it, and policed the morality of its uses. By focusing on power and its intellectual and social history in Congo, Unruly Ideas creates an analytical space in which readers can understand the differing manifestations of Kitawala-from its overtly political and sometimes violent moments to those more aptly characterized as individual quests for spiritual and physical therapy-as varying themes in the same story: the pursuit of wellness in the context of malady.\u003cbr\u003e On a more practical level, the book raises important questions about the project of writing histories of places like eastern Congo: a region where the repercussions of decades of political neglect, upheaval, and violence force us to reconsider how we can think about and use oral and archival sources. Finally, the book investigates the embodied and gendered nature of field research and interrogates the intersubjective and reciprocal nature of knowledge production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations vii \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 1: BEGINNINGS AND DESTINATIONS \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter 1 \u003c\/i\u003eTransmissions 25 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter 2 \u003c\/i\u003eHealing 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 2: VIOLENCE AND POWER \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter 3 \u003c\/i\u003eViolence 87 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter 4 \u003c\/i\u003eUnruliness 110 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter 5 \u003c\/i\u003eRelegation 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 3: POSTS AND PRESENTS \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter 6 \u003c\/i\u003ePosts 175 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter 7 \u003c\/i\u003ePresents 195 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 210 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 219 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 273 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 287\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739995533592,"sku":"9780821426081","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unruly-ideas-a-history-of-kitawala-in-congo-paperback-softback-9780821426081","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}