Kimbanguism An African Understanding of the Bible
From the early days of Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa, a Eurocentric view of Christian teaching was a primary tool in the subjugation and domination of native populations. Since 1921 Kimbanguism, an African Initiated Church, has advocated a reconstruction of Blackness by appropriating the parame...
| Format: | eBook |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
University Park, PA
Penn State University Press
2017
|
| Series: | Signifying (on) Scriptures
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
| Summary: | From the early days of Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa, a Eurocentric view of Christian teaching was a primary tool in the subjugation and domination of native populations. Since 1921 Kimbanguism, an African Initiated Church, has advocated a reconstruction of Blackness by appropriating the parameters of Christian identity. The prophet Simon Kimbangu, the founder of the movement, has inspired 17 million followers with Pan-African messages of political and spiritual liberation. The Spurned Race is the first comprehensive study of Kimbanguism since the pioneering books of the 1980s. The son of a Kimbanguist pastor, Gampiot uses his inside resources to offer new sociological and theological analyses of the church's interpretation of and signification on the Christian bible. The Spurned Race provides a unique and important look at the independent nature of early African Christian prophetic movements. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780271079707 oapen_627658 |
| Access: | Open Access |