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Pastors and Pastoralists: The Differential Penetration of Christianity among East African Cattle Herders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Peter Rigby
Peter Rigby
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Temple University
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The primary interest in this study is to make some contribution to the elaboration of a theoretical problem: What are the relations between certain forms of ideology and the social formations in which they are, or can be, realized? The consideration of ideology as a sociological category is of continual and growing concern (e.g., Moskvichov 1974; Bétaille 1978; Gellner 1978), despite the attempts of bourgeois social science to kill it off during the 1960s (cf. Lipset 1960; Bell 1960; Waxman 1968). But my present interest in it arises out of a particular historical question: Why did the Christian missions fail so signally in their efforts to evangelize and convert East African pastoralists, most conspicuously the various sections of the Maasai peoples of Tanzania and Kenya?

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 96 - 129
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1981

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