Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...countries church leaders have alleged that government takeover of schools is the result of Arab pressures to turn those countries into Muslim states. This fear is at the heart of the church-state conflict in Uganda...
...this is by no means the most important area of conflict. The real conflict arises out of the churches' reassessment of their participation in national development. Since the early '70s, the churches have grown increasingly critical of patterns of development that only widen the gap between rich and poor within African countries...
What should be the Church's attitude towards the socio-political and economic ideologies current in Africa? How do Christians deal with the demands of national patriotism and loyalty when they are in conflict with their integrity as persons whose faith commitment is to a jealous and sovereign Lord...
Consequently, another area of church-state conflict falls within the sphere of cultural revolution in Africa. African nationalism wants to find a religious alternative to Christianity. A few countries are turning to Islam, but the overwhelming preference is for a return to African traditional religions...
...resulting tensions come out looking like a religious conflict. In fact, the conflict is ideological, not religious. The political status quo in Africa, like that in any other part of the world, requires religious legitimation. If the churches threaten to withhold it, one or both of two things happen. Either the more out-spoken church leaders are removed (sometimes by assassination, as in the case of Archbishop Luwum of Uganda) or the political system actively encourages the coming to prominence of a traditional religious cult, such as in Kenya in 1969, Chad in 1974, Equitorial Guinea in 1976, and Madagascar...