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A Gramscian Analysis of the Role of Religion in Politics : Case Studies in Domination, Accommodation, and Resistance in Africa and Europe
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ISBN: 0773422005 9780773422001 9780773437548 0773437541 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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This study employs Gramscian theory as an interpretive grid in examining the use of Christianity by European colonizers to facilitate their oppression of Africans on the continent and in diaspora. The work clarifies how the western powers utilized their religion in North America, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya to justify their exploitation of Blacks and how many Africans, as Christian converts, assisted them to accomplish their imperialist goals. In addition, this research explains how other Blacks, in these same locations, interpreted their own religious tradition or revised western Christian

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