Our lady of the assumption parish church Mitala-Maria.

Kateete, Jude; Yiga, Andrew P; Schawelka, Karl

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dc.contributor.author	Kateete, Jude
dc.contributor.author	Yiga, Andrew P
dc.contributor.author	Schawelka, Karl
dc.date.accessioned	2021-12-08T05:02:20Z
dc.date.available	2021-12-08T05:02:20Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10
dc.identifier.uri	https://pub.nkumbauniversity.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/73
dc.description	The devotional images are discussed in the effort to read into the intentions for the dedications, and the study evaluates their implication in terms of a better understanding of the cult of the Virgin in Uganda popular devotion.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The dogma of the Assumption resonates with the Aristotelian argument that “Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life”(D’Holbach 2008:308) because it promoted the cult of the Virgin from the vantage point of hero worship that led to the creation of new deities and to deification from the cult of the person. In this study, the dedication of Our Lady of the Assumption parish church Mitala-Maria demonstrated that the parish church was an embodiment of the missionaries’ crusade to sway African believers to the Virgin as a deified heroine in the archetypal image of a guardian deity or mother goddess that resonated with the believers. The parish church absorbs meaning through three fundamental elements which resonate with its visuality that gave it character to impress itself upon believers’ hearts and minds: Titular; iconography; and, pitch. It has a parallel devotion of St. Balikuddembe, an African martyr of equally heroic stature in patronage role with mortals. The devotional images are discussed in the effort to read into the intentions for the dedications, and the study evaluates their implication in terms of a better understanding of the cult of the Virgin in Uganda popular devotion.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	parish church	en_US
dc.subject	Mitala-Maria	en_US
dc.subject	Our lady	en_US
dc.subject	Assumption	en_US
dc.subject	cult	en_US
dc.subject	heroine	en_US
dc.subject	devotional image	en_US
dc.title	Our lady of the assumption parish church Mitala-Maria.	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Understanding the virgin in the context of the deified heroine.	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US