Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe

The Salvation Army and African Liberation, 1891–1991

Norman Murdoch, Harold Hill, Hill

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781625646811
  9781498227346
• eBook ISBN:
  9781630878795
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe examines the history of the Salvation Army in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe and its relationships with the state and with the rest of the church. In particular, it examines parallels between events of the first Chimurenga, a rising against European occupation in 1896-97, and the second Chimurenga in the 1970s, the civil war that led to majority rule. At the time of the first, the Salvation Army was barely established in the country; by the second, it was part of the establishment. The book explores the enmeshment of this Christian mission in the institutions of white rule and the painful process of disentanglement necessary by the late twentieth century. Stories of martyrdom and colonial mythology are set in the carefully researched context of ecumenical relations and the Salvation Army's largely unknown and seldom accessible internal politics.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Editorial Note
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments (2014)
• Norman Murdoch as Colleague, Historian and Teacher
• Norman Murdoch, Historian of The Salvation Army
• Chapter 1: Christian and Cultural Warfare in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 1890–1990
• Chapter 2: The Salvation Army Invades Mashonaland, 1891–95
• Chapter 3: The First Chimurenga (1896–97) and the Death of Captain Cass
• Chapter 4: Rhodes and Booth
• Chapter 5: Father and Son in 1908
• Chapter 6: The Salvation Army and the Rhodesian State, 1908–65
• Chapter 7: Colonial, Conciliar, and Communist Forces Collide, 1950s and 1960s
• Chapter 8: Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune
• Chapter 9: Conciliar Movements and The Salvation Army, 1970–78
• Chapter 10: The Program to Combat Racism and the Salvation Army Reaction, 1969–78
• Chapter 11: The 1978 Deaths at Usher Institute
• Chapter 12: Salvation Army Reaction to the Usher Killings, 1978–83
• Chapter 13: African Salvationists React to the Salvation Army’s Withdrawal from the World Council of Churches, 1981
• Chapter 14: Conclusions
• Epilogue
• Bibliography