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DESCRIPTION:Title: \n\n"Gods\, Kings\, and Missionaries: Legacies of Ancien
 t States and Christian Missionaries on Religion in Africa"\n \n\nAbstract:\
 n\nAfrican Christians who hold indigenous religious beliefs are more tolera
 nt of other religions. I argue that syncretic Africans are more likely to d
 escend from ethnicities that were more politically centralized\, relative t
 o acephalous ethnicities\, in the ancient period. Exposure to Christian mis
 sionaries interacted with ancient political institutions to produce relativ
 ely greater syncretism among the former. Ruling elites helped translate the
  new and foreign Christian ideas and helped map them onto existing and indi
 genous religious ideas. They had incentives to convert to Christianity to s
 ecure their ability to retain power and protect and expand their territorie
 s. Christianity replaced indigenous deities that previously legitimized eli
 tes’ political authority. Missionaries exploited greater economies of scale
  among centralized than acephalous groups to more easily convert the former
  than the latter. Using OLS regressions on data from various sources\, I sh
 ow that centralization and missionary exposure positively associates with s
 yncretism. Later\, centralized Africans created African Initiated Churches 
 (AICs) which continued to indigenize Christianity\, allowing syncretic lega
 cies of ancient political and religious institutions to persist. This paper
  shows that ancient indigenous institutions in Africa have important legaci
 es on religion.\n\n \n\nWhen:\n\nMonday\, January 13th from 12:10PM to 1:30
 PM.\n\n \n\nWhere:\n\nHMNSS 1503
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LOCATION:Humanities & Social Sciences Building\, 1503
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SUMMARY:Political Science Speaker Series - Constantine Manda
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URL:https://events.ucr.edu/event/political-science-speaker-series-constanti
 ne-manda
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