Khartoum Goliath: SPLM/SPLA Update and Martial Theology during the Second Sudanese Civil War
During the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army published a weekly newspaper entitled SPLA/SPLM Update. This article builds on previous scholarship about the role of Christianity in the Sudanese civil conflict by revealing how the SPLM/SPLA Update was an essent...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2016]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-153 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sudan People's Liberation Movement
/ Weekly newspaper
/ Civil War
/ Frame (Journalism)
/ Religious conflict
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam CA Christianity HA Bible KBL Near East and North Africa NBL Doctrine of Predestination TK Recent history ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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| Summary: | During the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army published a weekly newspaper entitled SPLA/SPLM Update. This article builds on previous scholarship about the role of Christianity in the Sudanese civil conflict by revealing how the SPLM/SPLA Update was an essential medium of the conflict and contributed to its framing in religious terms. The Update published content that constituted a martial theology pitting the SPLA against the National Islamic Front, the party of the Muslim Brothers under Hassan Turabi's leadership. It interpreted events using biblical and ancient Israelite templates, placed circumstances in a narrative trajectory, and transformed political history into a spiritual chronicle. In so doing, it attracted readers beyond the geographic borders of Sudan, situating Christian Sudan in a contemporary global Sudanese diaspora while also reaching into the ancient past to locate the contemporary struggles of Sudanese Christians in an older story of divine chosenness. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.4.2.0129 |