Kimbanguism

• Verfasst von: Mokoko Gampiot, Aurélien [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Kimbanguism
• Titelzusatz: An African Understanding of the Bible
• Verlagsort: University Park, PA
• Verlag: Penn State University Press
• Jahr: 2017
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Signifying (on) Scriptures
• Schrift/Sprache: English
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07970-7
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Religion & beliefs
• Sach-SW: Religion
• Sach-SW: religion (discipline)
• Sach-SW: Religion
• Sach-SW: Religion
• K10plus-PPN: 1778586430
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

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