Openjuru, George Ladaah2022-04-152022-04-1520070141-0423DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2006.00325.xhttps://ir.gu.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/20.500.14270/126The wider study is a PhD in progress, which is due for completion in early 2007 (George Openjuru: An ethnographic study of rural community literacy practices in Uganda, University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Adult and Higher Education).In this article, we examine how Christianity provides the impetus for local literacy practices in a rural community in Uganda. These Christian literacy practices form a central part of the literacy activities of the community and are manifested in a variety of contexts from public to private, using a wide variety of readily available religious texts in the community. Through examination of Christian literacy practices, the authors suggest that ethnographic research has the potential to generate information that can be used to enhance literacy learning in rural community life.enArticle