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RELIGION POLITICS AND CULTS IN EAST AFRICA - EM...

Religion  Politics and Cults in East Africa is the first major  original  and extensive
research-based study of the apocalyptic and doomsday Catholic Marian Movement and its
Benedictine monastic moral and religious practices  including vows of poverty  celibacy 
obedience  daily contemplation in silence  and hard work. The Marian Movement is presented
within the cultural  historical  political  and religious context of the East African Revival
Movement  the Anglican Balokole Movement  Alice Lakwena's Holy Spirit Movement  Joseph Kony's
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)  and other religio-political liberation movements  including the
Maji Maji  the Mau Mau  and Nyabingi Liberation Movement. The Marian Movement was locally known
as «Abanyabugoto» and «The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God». It
began in 1989 as a Catholic women's Marian devotional and moral reformation movement  founded
and headed by Keledonia Mwerinde. Faced with African cultural patriarchy andmale-dominated
Catholic Church hierarchy  Mwerinde recruited Joseph Kibwetere and the Rev. Fr. Dominic
Kataribabo to serve as the public face of the Marian Movement. In response to Catholic
hierarchy's opposition and persecution  Fr. Kataribabo designed a theology of ritual sacrifice
atonement  and martyrdoms for the devout Marian Catholics  who were devotees of the Blessed
Virgin Mary. He martyred the Marian devotees in March 2000  in order to transform them into
Mary's saints  and to liberate their souls and send them to heaven  where they would instantly
attain eternal life  lasting peace  and happiness.

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