Masango Chéry / Tshepo Masango Chery Kingdom Come

The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2450-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Masango Chéry, Tshepo

Tshepo Masango Chery, Masango Chery

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations ix
Tlhompo/Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Thy Kingdom Come on Earth 1
1. “My Blood Is a Million Stories”: The Making of Coloured Identity 13
2. Faith of Our Fathers: The Ethiopian Movement and African Identities 29
3. In the Name of the Father: The Manye Sisters and Church Formation 54
4. Ministries of Migration: George McGuire, Robert Josias Morgan, and the Transformation of Black Churches in the West Indies and the United States 83
5. Garvey’s God: Racial Uplift and the Creation of the African Orthodox Church 105
6. “We See on the Horizon the Sun of African Orthodoxy”: Church Growth in Southern Africa 122
7. Seeds of Freedom: Growing Orthodoxy and Freedom in East Africa 151
Epilogue: Thy Will Be Done 179
Notes 187
Bibliography 219
Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Tshepo Masango Chéry is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston.