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Stephen L. Weigert. Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 151 pp. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Ronald Kassimer
Ronald Kassimer*
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Social Science Research Council, New York, New York
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African Studies Review , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , September 1998 , pp. 202 - 204
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1998

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Notes

1. Referring to RENAMO, Weigert writes that by mobilizing politically alienated rural civilians “across a much larger ideological spectrum… such rebellions can successfully implement the principles of modern guerilla warfare espoused by strategists such as Mao and Ho Chi Minh without necessarily adopting a Marxist or other secular ideology” (7).

2. Ranger, Terence O., “Religious Movements and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa,” African Studies Review 29(1) [1986]: 1–69 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3. Most of the material in the case studies is derived from secondary sources. The Malagasy case does use archival materials from the U.S. consulate in Madagascar, and the RENAMO chapter relies on some contemporary newspaper articles.