Kingdom Come

The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond

Tshepo Masango Chéry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1993-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-1993-X / 147801993X
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1993-0 / 9781478019930
Zustand	Neuware