Alice Lakwena & the Holy spirits : war in Northern Uganda, 1985-97

Author(s)

• Behrend, Heike
• Cohen, Mitch

Bibliographic Information

Alice Lakwena & the Holy spirits : war in Northern Uganda, 1985-97

Heike Behrend ; translated by Mitch Cohen

（Eastern African studies）

J. Currey , Ohio University Press, 1999

• : James Currey cloth
• : James Currey paper
• : Ohio University Press cloth
• : Ohio University Press paper

Other Title

Alice und die Geister : Krieg im Norden Uganda

Note

"Originally published as Behrend, Heike: Alice und die Geister, Kireg im Norden Uganda, Munich: Trickster, 1993 (Uroboros; vol. 4)"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: James Currey paper ISBN 9780852552476

Description

An internal view of Alice Lakwena's movement. In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit, raised an army called the 'Holy Spirit Mobile Forces' and with it waged a war, not only against the National Resistance Army of the government but also against internal enemies in the form of 'impure' soldiers, witches and sorcerers. She came close to her goal of overthrowing the government but was defeated and fled to Kenya. This book gives an account of the movement from within, based on interviews with and writings of its members, and concludes with an account of the successor movements into which Alice's forces fragmented, including the 'Lord's Resistance Army', actively involved in the civil wars of the Sudan and Uganda. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers

Table of Contents

• The troubles of an anthropologist
• the history and ethnogenesis of the Acholi
• the crisis
• the war of the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces
• the Holy Spirit Movement as a regional cult
• the march on Kampala
• the history of religions in Acholi
• Alice and the spirits
• the texts of the Holy Spirit Movement
• the war in Acholi, 1987-98.

Volume

: James Currey cloth ISBN 9780852552483

Description

In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit, raised an army and fought the government's witches and sorcerers. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers

Table of Contents

• The troubles of an anthropologist
• the history and ethnogenesis of the Acholi
• the crisis
• the war of the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces
• the Holy Spirit Movement as a regional cult
• the march on Kampala
• the history of religions in Acholi
• Alice and the spirits
• the texts of the Holy Spirit Movement
• the war in Acholi, 1987-98.

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• NCID: BA47605723
• ISBN:
  • 0852552483
  • 0852552475
  • 0821413104
  • 0821413112
• LCCN: 99088653
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Oxford,Athens
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 210 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL2480.A33
  • DC21 : 299/.69761
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Acoli (African people) -- Religion
  • LCSH : Religion and politics -- Uganda
  • LCSH : Auma, Alice -- Teachings
  • LCSH : Spiritualism -- Uganda
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04400569