Decolonisation as "Unlearning Christianity": Fallism and African Religiosity as Case Studies
The students whose protests have captured the public imagination of South Africans since 2015, seem to, by and large, have replaced Christianity with a new "religion," namely decolonisation. On the other hand, many African Christians seem to remain oblivious to the #MustFall movement'...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Black theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 223-240 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics FB Theological education FD Contextual theology KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Decolonisation
B #MustFall B AFRICAN RELIGIOSITY B African Initiated Churches (AIC) B Christianity B fallism |
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| Summary: | The students whose protests have captured the public imagination of South Africans since 2015, seem to, by and large, have replaced Christianity with a new "religion," namely decolonisation. On the other hand, many African Christians seem to remain oblivious to the #MustFall movement's revolutionary manifesto. And yet I argue that unlearning Christianity by the fallists and learning it anew by African Initiated Churches, among others, are two sides of the same coin. This article interrogates a few chosen facets of the intricate and multifaceted relationship between the decolonial project and Christianity in South Africa today. After locating my own voice within the decolonial discourse, I seek to interpret fallism as an overt act of a decolonial resistance, and juxtapose it with a covert one, namely the praxis of African religiosity. With Vellem and others, I argue that this praxis offers a powerful resource for liberating Christianity from its colonial/imperial entanglement. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1670 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2019.1688088 |