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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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Φόρτωση...
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Έκδοση: |
[2019]
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| Στο/Στη: |
Black theology
Έτος: 2019, Τόμος: 17, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 223-240 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | CG Χριστιανισμός και Πολιτική FB Θεολογικές Σπουδές FD Θεολογία βάσει συμφραζομένων ΚΒΝ Υποσαχάρια Αφρική |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Decolonisation
B #MustFall B AFRICAN RELIGIOSITY B African Initiated Churches (AIC) B Christianity B fallism |
| Διαθέσιμο Online: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Σύνοψη: | 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 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2019.1688088 |
