Kingdom come: the politics of faith and freedom in segregationist South Africa and beyond

"In Kingdom Come, Tshepo Masango Chéry charts a new genealogy of early twentieth-century Black Christian activists who challenged racism in South Africa before the solidification of apartheid by using faith as a strategy against global racism. Masango Chéry traces this Black freedom struggle an...

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Main Author: Masango Chéry, Tshepo 1980- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham London Duke University Press 2023
In:Year: 2023
Series/Journal:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Racism / Black theology / Resistance / History 1900-1950
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
FD Contextual theology
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
TJ Modern history
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Religion And Politics (South Africa)
B Anti-racism Religious aspects Christianity
B Liberation Theology (South Africa)
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
B RELIGION / Generals / Christianity
B African Diaspora
B Black Theology
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Masango Chéry, Tshepo, 1980-: Kingdom come. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2023. - 9781478024507
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Summary:"In Kingdom Come, Tshepo Masango Chéry charts a new genealogy of early twentieth-century Black Christian activists who challenged racism in South Africa before the solidification of apartheid by using faith as a strategy against global racism. Masango Chéry traces this Black freedom struggle and the ways that South African church leaders defied colonial domination by creating, in solidarity with Black Christians worldwide, Black-controlled religious institutions that were geared toward their liberation. She demonstrates how Black Christians positioned the church as a site of political resistance and centered specifically African visions of freedom in their organizing. Drawing on archival research spanning South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Masango Chéry tells a global story of the twentieth century that illuminates the formations of racial identity, state control, and religious belief. Masango Chéry's recentering of South Africa in the history of worldwide Black liberation changes understandings of spiritual and intellectual routes of dissemination throughout the diaspora"--
"My blood is a million stories" : the making of coloured identity -- Faith of our fathers : the Ethiopian movement and African identities -- In the name of the Father : the Manye Sisters and Church formation -- Ministries of migration : George McGuire, Robert Josias Morgan, and the transformation of Black churches in the West Indies and the United States -- Garvey's God : racial uplift and the creation of the African Orthodox Church -- "We see on the horizon the sun of African orthodoxy" : church growth in Southern Africa -- Seeds of freedom : growing orthodoxy and freedom in East Africa.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:147801993X