Masango Chery Tshepo Masango Chery

Kingdom Come (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

In Kingdom Come, Tshepo Masango Chery 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 Chery 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 Chery tells a global story of the twentieth century that illuminates the formations of racial identity, state control, and religious belief. Masango Chery's recentering of South Africa in the history of worldwide Black liberation changes understandings of spiritual and intellectual routes of dissemination throughout the diaspora.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478024507
• Artikelnr.: 72422393

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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