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AFFECT AND COMMUNITY AMONG CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN EAST AFRICA - Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860–1970. By Andreana C. Prichard. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 339. $39.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781611862409); $31.95, e-book (ISBN: 9781628962925).

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Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860–1970. By Andreana C. Prichard. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 339. $39.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781611862409); $31.95, e-book (ISBN: 9781628962925).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2019

CHARLOTTE WALKER-SAID
CHARLOTTE WALKER-SAID*
Affiliation:
The City University of New York
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ChristianityEast Africawomenmissions
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The Journal of African History , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , July 2019 , pp. 299 - 302
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1 Jan Plamper has written about the historiographical process by which modern nations have generated stereotypes that supposedly capture their collective emotional makeup (i.e. the British ‘stiff upper lip’). See Eustace, N. et al. , ‘AHR conversation: the historical study of emotions’, The American Historical Review 117:5 (2012), 1486–1531CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Horton, R., ‘On the rationality of conversion: part I’, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 45:3 (1975), 219–35CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 See Wool, Z. H. and Livingston, J., ‘Collateral afterworlds: an introduction’, Social Text 35:1 (130) (March 1, 2017): 1–15CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For matters of the heart in African history, see Cole, J., Love in Africa (Chicago, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hunter, M., Love in the Time of AIDS Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa (Bloomington, IN, 2010)Google Scholar.