J.J. Carney
I am Professor of Theology and African Studies at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, where I also direct our graduate program in Christian Spirituality. I am also a past U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi. I hold a Ph.D. in Church History from the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC); an M.Div. from Duke University Divinity School; and a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Arkansas. My research interests include Catholic theology and history in East Africa; theology of reconciliation; political theology; religious leadership in the public square; missiology and global Christian history; Jesuit history and spirituality, and sport and religion.
Address: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Address: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Drawing on an array of archival, oral and secondary sources, this article offers a synthesis of Ugandan Christian leaders’ political engagement during the quarter-century following independence in 1962. I argue that church leaders in the 1960s embraced a politically quiescent, “social development” approach best embodied in the ecumenical Uganda Joint Christian Council. In the early 1970s, Anglican and Catholic leaders slowly withdrew from active collaboration with Amin’s regime, embracing an approach I term “prudent recalcitrance” entailing shifting stances of official silence, private lobbying and carefully crafted written critiques. Finally, during the political unrest and civil war of the early 1980s, church leaders adopted a posture of “prophetic presence,” standing for and with the people in opposition to Milton Obote’s increasingly violent state.
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Drawing on an array of archival, oral and secondary sources, this article offers a synthesis of Ugandan Christian leaders’ political engagement during the quarter-century following independence in 1962. I argue that church leaders in the 1960s embraced a politically quiescent, “social development” approach best embodied in the ecumenical Uganda Joint Christian Council. In the early 1970s, Anglican and Catholic leaders slowly withdrew from active collaboration with Amin’s regime, embracing an approach I term “prudent recalcitrance” entailing shifting stances of official silence, private lobbying and carefully crafted written critiques. Finally, during the political unrest and civil war of the early 1980s, church leaders adopted a posture of “prophetic presence,” standing for and with the people in opposition to Milton Obote’s increasingly violent state.