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Format: 1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition: 1st, New ed.

ISBN: 9781453911075

Content: Isaiah Shembe’s Prophetic Uhlanga: The Worldview of the Nazareth Baptist Church in Colonial South Africa examines the worldview generated and sustained by the Zulu Zionist prophet Isaiah Shembe and his congregation, the Nazareth Baptist Church, during South Africa’s colonial era. The book contends that the worldview embraced by Shembe and his congregants was prophetically defined and reified. This argument challenges nationalist and postcolonialist discourses about colonized populations that have viewed empire and its consequences as the prime determinants of colonized individuals’ lives. Through a close reading of the church’s records, Joel E. Tishken demonstrates that at the heart of the narrative Shembe and church members told of themselves was a sincere and faithful conviction that Shembe was God’s anointed prophet and his followers God’s new chosen people. Within their understanding of colonial South Africa, British imperialism and white supremacy were part of God’s cosmic vision to provide atonement and salvation for Africans – plans they believed God was prophetically communicating to Shembe. The historical narrative, theology, and identity of Shembe and his parishioners revolved around this prophetically prescribed explanation for the conditions of colonial Africa. Thus, Tishken argues that colonized communities interpreted their worlds in much more creative and complex ways than scholars have recognized. This book is applicable to courses on imperialism, South Africa, African religions, and the history of Christianity.

Content: «Tishken has made a very original and insightful contribution to our understanding of prophetic churches, and particularly their responses to colonialism. He effectively challenges decades of scholarly theorizing from many different perspectives by demonstrating that African responses were significantly more nuanced and complex than simple resistance or collaboration.» (Roger B. Beck, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 18.1, 2014)

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781433122859

Language: English

DOI: 10.3726/978-1-4539-1107-5

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Format: 232 p , ill , 25 cm

ISBN: 9781433122859

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index , Introduction. Colonization and missionization in eastern South Africa, 1820s-1930sA brief history of the Nazareth Baptist Church -- African responses to imperialism: historiography and theory of colonial Africa -- 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 -- Preserving a prophetic church history, 1935-1990s -- Catechism of the Nazarites -- Acts of the Nazarites -- The Nazareth Baptist Church's documentary record and the historian -- Provenance -- Narrative voice and Shembe -- The documentary record and church membership -- Conclusion. Prophecy, history, memory, and legitimacy in the biography of Isaiah Shembe, ca. 1870-1910. Explaining the allure of Shembe's biography -- The making of a prophet: the prophetic biography of the early life of Isaiah Shembe -- Shembe's calling and the founding of the Nazareth Baptist Church -- Shembe's prophetic aura and ministry -- 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 -- State interventions of the Nazareth Baptist Church, 1922 to 1931 -- Maneuvering at the margins: the history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, ca. 1920 to 1935 -- Conclusion. Prophecy, theology, and the identity of the chosen. Theophanic sites -- Ekuphakameni: the New Jerusalem -- Mt. Nhlangakazi -- Soteriology -- The sabbath -- God's laws -- The identity of the chosen. Sacrament, ritual, and identity. Lord's supper -- Baptism -- Ukusina -- UmNazaretha -- Conclusion. Conclusion. Neither resistant nor acquiescent: positioning the Nazareth Baptist Church historiographically -- Comparative dimensions -- After apartheid. , Introduction. Colonization and missionization in eastern South Africa, 1820s-1930s -- A brief history of the Nazareth Baptist Church -- African responses to imperialism: historiography and theory of colonial Africa -- 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 -- Preserving a prophetic church history, 1935-1990s -- Catechism of the Nazarites -- Acts of the Nazarites -- The Nazareth Baptist Church's documentary record and the historian -- Provenance -- Narrative voice and Shembe -- The documentary record and church membership -- Conclusion. Prophecy, history, memory, and legitimacy in the biography of Isaiah Shembe, ca. 1870-1910. Explaining the allure of Shembe's biography -- The making of a prophet: the prophetic biography of the early life of Isaiah Shembe -- Shembe's calling and the founding of the Nazareth Baptist Church -- Shembe's prophetic aura and ministry -- 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 -- State interventions of the Nazareth Baptist Church, 1922 to 1931 -- Maneuvering at the margins: the history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, ca. 1920 to 1935 -- Conclusion. Prophecy, theology, and the identity of the chosen. Theophanic sites -- Ekuphakameni: the New Jerusalem -- Mt. Nhlangakazi -- Soteriology -- The sabbath -- God's laws -- The identity of the chosen. Sacrament, ritual, and identity. Lord's supper -- Baptism -- Ukusina -- UmNazaretha -- Conclusion. Conclusion. Neither resistant nor acquiescent: positioning the Nazareth Baptist Church historiographically -- Comparative dimensions -- After apartheid.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781453911075

Language: English

Keywords: Shembe, Isaiah 1870-1935 ; Nazarite Baptist Church ; Kolonialismus ; Prophetie