Pursuing Transformation

Healing, Deliverance, and Discourses of Development among Catholics in Uganda

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ID11296313
AuthorsAlison Fitchett Climenhaga (0000-0002-4610-7837, University of Notre Dame USA, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume35
Issue2
Pages204-224
Publication date2018-05-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMission Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0168-9789 • E-ISSN: 1573-3831
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15733831-12341567
OpenAlexW2809038688
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

This article considers how Catholics in Uganda engage with and respond to charismatic healing ministries, arguing that controversies over faith healing and deliverance ministries afford a privileged glimpse into how different actors understand how the church is called to effect specific forms of transformation in individuals and the societies they inhabit. Approaches to healing are multiple and contested, with local Catholics disagreeing about which methods of dealing with affliction are acceptable. While some understand biomedical treatment and healing prayer as competing alternatives – interpreting healing prayer as a threat to development initiatives and mature Christian discipleship – others understand them as complementary avenues of addressing affliction. Close analysis of how rural Catholics approach healing highlights the diversity of practice within the Catholic tradition, and the potential for different approaches to religious transformation to cause friction within parish communities

Alternative medicine · Charisma · Diversity (politics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Faith healing · History of religions · Political science · Prayer · Sociology · Spirituality · Anthropology · Christian Theology and Mission · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies

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