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dc.contributor.authorHale, Frederick
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-20T14:22:23Z
dc.date.available2017-04-20T14:22:23Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationHale, F. 2015. Interpreting Luguru religious practice through Colonialist eyes: Child Sacrifice and East African Dance in Brett Young’s The Crescent Moon. Journal for the study of religion (Religion in Southern Africa), 28(1):6–22. [https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsr/article/view/144830]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1011–7601
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/21515
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsr/article/view/144830
dc.description.abstractPublic perceptions of indigenous African religious life have been heavily influenced by its representation in imaginative literature and film, both before and after serious scholarly investigations yielded detailed analyses in little-read professional journals and other academic publications. While serving as a medical officer in German East Africa (present-day Tanzania) during the First World War, the increasingly popular English novelist and poet Francis Brett Young, who would eventually write nine books set in sub- Saharan Africa and die in Cape Town in 1954, described Luguru religious practices in his widely praised non-fictional account Marching on Tanga and his first African novel, The Crescent Moon. It is argued in the present article that Brett Young severely misrepresented his subject, not least by ascribing child sacrifice to the Luguru. His presentation of this ostensible dimension of tribal worship as a vestige of transplanted ancient Semitic propitiation rituals is found to be unwarranted.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAJOLen_US
dc.subjectFrancis Brett Youngen_US
dc.subjectLuguruen_US
dc.subjectAfrican religionen_US
dc.subjectchild sacrificeen_US
dc.subjectEast Africaen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectmissionariesen_US
dc.titleInterpreting Luguru religious practice through Colonialist eyes: Child Sacrifice and East African Dance in Brett Young’s The Crescent Moonen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID23976802 - Hale, Frederick Allen


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