Kimbanguism : an African understanding of the Bible / Aur�elien Mokoko Gampiot ; Translated by C�ecile Coquet-Mokoko.
Material type: TextSeries: Signifying (on) ScripturesPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780271079707
- 0271079703
- Eglise de J�esus-Christ sur la terre par le proph�ete Simon Kimbangu
- Kimbangu, Simon, 1887-1951
- Bible -- Black interpretations
- Kimbangu, Simon, 1887-1951
- Eglise de J�esus-Christ sur la terre par le proph�ete Simon Kimbangu
- Bible
- Nativistic movements -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Christianity -- Africa
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations
- Black interpretations
- Christianity
- Nativistic movements
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- RELIGION / Christian Theology / Anthropology
- 289.9/3 23
- BX7435.E44 M635 2017eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Europe in Africa -- African responses : the birth of African Christianities -- Kimbanguism as a social movement -- The three sources of Kimbanguist theology -- The identity of Simon Kimbangu in the contemporary Kimbanguist faith -- Miraculous healing and worship -- Kimbanguist prophetism, messianism, and millenarianism -- A theology of identity reconstruction in a global context -- Reclaiming Kimbangu's prophetic heritage.
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.
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