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Tiny Citizenship, Twisted Politics, and Christian Love in a Ugandan Church Choir

2022

In 1977, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Janani Luwum, was killed under orders from President Idi Amin following his public criticism of Amin’s reign of terror. This article offers an ethnographic case study of a choir named in Luwum’s honour to extend existing research on the interrelations of Christianity, citizenship, and politics in contemporary Uganda. To do so, I draw a number of conceptual tools – tiny citizenship, authentic citizenship, twisted politics, and love – from work by and referencing Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, and Gary Alan Fine. First, analyzing the choir’s participation in the national commemoration of Janani Luwum Day at Uganda’s State House in 2021, I argue …

Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum

De Laet's critical confutation of Hugh Grotius treatise which argued that Native Americans came from Norway, Ethiopia and China.

Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum

De Laet's critical confutation of Hugh Grotius treatise which argued that Native Americans came from Norway, Ethiopia and China.

Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Responsio ad dissertationem secundam Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum

De Laet's response to Hugo Grotius who, resentful about De Laet's confutation on his previous work, had published a second treatise in an attempt to refute De Laet's arguments.