African Communality Contributing to the Dignity of the Terminally Ill: Traditional and Political Ujamaa in the Selian Hospice and Palliative Care Program in Tanzania

Tanzania’s first president Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa (living together or living as one family) still extends its influence on Tanzanians’ understanding of communality. The era of Ujamaa socialism as a political system is now history, but some of its heritage still seems to influence how people in Tanz...

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Main Author: Vähäkangas, Auli M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Exchange
Year: 2016, Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 344-363
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDD Protestant Church
RK Charity work
Further subjects:B contextual pastoral theology palliative care Tanzania communality
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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