Community Caregivers in Uganda: Popular Religion and an Emerging Social Field

   
Summary

Community Caregivers in Uganda: Popular Religion and an Emerging Social Field

Description

This paper is about Christian and Muslim women leaders in Uganda who are working to address the broader care needs of their communities in both urban and rural settings. I describe these community caregivers as players in an emerging social field focused on solving Uganda's pervasive crisis of care, caused by the undermining of traditional care infrastructure and the failed interventions of foreign and domestic governance organizations. I argue that this ostensibly "secular" field is nonetheless enabled by religious modes of practice, and embedded in Ugandan popular religion and the religious social ecology. *Reading the working paper in advance is required for attendance.* Co-sponsored with the School of Theology

Starts

12:00pm on Friday, November 1st 2019

End Time

1:30pm

URL

http://www.bu.edu/cura/colloquium-19-20/

Topics

Alumni, Meetings, Religious Services & Activities, Special Interest to Women, Global

Speaker(s)

Nicolette Manglos Weber, Assistant Professor, School of Theology

Event Open To

public

Information Phone

353-5241

Contact Name

Arlene Brennan

Building

152 Bay State Rd.

Room

2nd Floor Conference

Contact Email

arleneb@bu.edu

Contact Organization

CURA

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