Kingdom Come
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Kingdom Come

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

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Kingdom Come

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

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Content
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Tlhompo /Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Thy Kingdom Come on Earth
  6. One. “My Blood Is a Million Stories”: The Making of Coloured Identity
  7. Two. Faith of Our Fathers: The Ethiopian Movement and African Identities
  8. Three. In the Name of the Father: The Manye Sisters and Church Formation
  9. Four. Ministries of Migration: George McGuire, Robert Josias Morgan, and the Transformation of Black Churches in the West Indies and the United States
  10. Five. Garvey’s God: Racial Uplift and the Creation of the African Orthodox Church
  11. Six. “We See on the Horizon the Sun of African Orthodoxy”: Church Growth in Southern Africa
  12. Seven. Seeds of Freedom: Growing Orthodoxy and Freedom in East Africa
  13. Epilogue: Thy Will Be Done
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index