Isaiah Shembe's prophetic uhlanga
Subtitle: the worldview of the Nazareth Baptist Church in colonial South Africa
By: Joel E. Tishken
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781433122859; 9781453911075
Subjects: Religion; History; Nazarite Baptist Church; Prophetie; Kolonialismus; Zulu (African people); Independent churches; Church of the Nazarites; Zionist churches (Africa)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Colonization and missionization in eastern South Africa, 1820s-1930s; title: A brief history of the Nazareth Baptist Church; title: African responses to imperialism: historiography and theory of colonial Africa; title: Shembe's prophetic response to colonialism. Prophecy, oralture, and literature: the documentary history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, 1910s-1990s. Oralture and literature: the genesis of a prophetic church record, 1910-1935; title: Preserving a prophetic church history, 1935-1990s; title: Catechism of the Nazarites; title: Acts of the Nazarites; title: The Nazareth Baptist Church's documentary record and the historian; title: Provenance; title: Narrative voice and Shembe; title: The documentary record and church membership; title: Conclusion. Prophecy, history, memory, and legitimacy in the biography of Isaiah Shembe, ca. 1870-1910. Explaining the allure of Shembe's biography; title: The making of a prophet: the prophetic biography of the early life of Isaiah Shembe; title: Shembe's calling and the founding of the Nazareth Baptist Church; title: Shembe's prophetic aura and ministry; title: Conclusion. A prophetic worldview amid empire: the history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, 1910-1935. Accusation and acquittal: church-state relations, ca. 1910-ca. 1920; title: State interventions of the Nazareth Baptist Church, 1922 to 1931; title: Maneuvering at the margins: the history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, ca. 1920 to 1935; title: Conclusion. Prophecy, theology, and the identity of the chosen. Theophanic sites; title: Ekuphakameni: the New Jerusalem; title: Mt. Nhlangakazi; title: Soteriology; title: The sabbath; title: God's laws; title: The identity of the chosen. Sacrament, ritual, and identity. Lord's supper; title: Baptism; title: Ukusina; title: UmNazaretha; title: Conclusion. Conclusion. Neither resistant nor acquiescent: positioning the Nazareth Baptist Church historiographically; title: Comparative dimensions; title: After apartheid.