Protestant replications: the conversion, ordination, and schism of a Zulu bishop in colonial Natal
This article examines the story of Mbiyana Ngidi and his five-decade conversion career, leading up to his establishment of an Ethiopianist church in 1890 – the first African Initiated Church in the Colony of Natal in Southern Africa. I focus on three events in his life – conversion, ordination, schi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 138-171 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ngidi, Mbiyana 1827-1896
/ KwaZulu-Natal
/ Independant church
/ Ethiopianism
/ Protestantism
/ Conversion (Religion)
/ Ordination
/ Schism
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDD Protestant Church KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethiopianism
B Ordination B Replication B Christianity B Schism B Conversion |
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| Summary: | This article examines the story of Mbiyana Ngidi and his five-decade conversion career, leading up to his establishment of an Ethiopianist church in 1890 – the first African Initiated Church in the Colony of Natal in Southern Africa. I focus on three events in his life – conversion, ordination, schism – and suggest that one way of reading these events is as different forms of replication: conversion as identification, ordination as imitation, and schism as reproduction. I engage with the idea in the anthropology of Christianity that Protestants desire a certain type of originality and therefore shun repetition. I argue the opposite, namely that Ngidi's story shows us how Protestants seek out replicated relations. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Africa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340250 |
