Author: Cecilia Irvine
Publisher:
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Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Kimbanguist Church (EJCSK) and the Kimbanguist Movement
Author: Cecilia Irvine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Out of Africa
Author: Joseph Diangienda
Publisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Mainly a statement of the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by the Prophet Simon Kimbangu, written by Joseph Diangienda and translated form the French.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Mainly a statement of the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by the Prophet Simon Kimbangu, written by Joseph Diangienda and translated form the French.
Kimbanguism
Author: Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In this volume, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, a sociologist and son of a Kimbanguist pastor, provides a fresh and insightful perspective on African Kimbanguism and its traditions. The largest of the African-initiated churches, Kimbanguism claims seventeen million followers worldwide. Like other such churches, it originated out of black African resistance to colonization in the early twentieth century and advocates reconstructing blackness by appropriating the parameters of Christian identity. Mokoko Gampiot provides a contextual history of the religion’s origins and development, compares Kimbanguism with other African-initiated churches and with earlier movements of political and spiritual liberation, and explores the implicit and explicit racial dynamics of Christian identity that inform church leaders and lay practitioners. He explains how Kimbanguists understand their own blackness as both a curse and a mission and how that underlying belief continuously spurs them to reinterpret the Bible through their own prisms. Drawing from an unprecedented investigation into Kimbanguism’s massive body of oral traditions—recorded sermons, participant observations of church services and healing sessions, and translations of hymns—and informed throughout by Mokoko Gampiot’s intimate knowledge of the customs and language of Kimbanguism, this is an unparalleled theological and sociological analysis of a unique African Christian movement.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In this volume, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, a sociologist and son of a Kimbanguist pastor, provides a fresh and insightful perspective on African Kimbanguism and its traditions. The largest of the African-initiated churches, Kimbanguism claims seventeen million followers worldwide. Like other such churches, it originated out of black African resistance to colonization in the early twentieth century and advocates reconstructing blackness by appropriating the parameters of Christian identity. Mokoko Gampiot provides a contextual history of the religion’s origins and development, compares Kimbanguism with other African-initiated churches and with earlier movements of political and spiritual liberation, and explores the implicit and explicit racial dynamics of Christian identity that inform church leaders and lay practitioners. He explains how Kimbanguists understand their own blackness as both a curse and a mission and how that underlying belief continuously spurs them to reinterpret the Bible through their own prisms. Drawing from an unprecedented investigation into Kimbanguism’s massive body of oral traditions—recorded sermons, participant observations of church services and healing sessions, and translations of hymns—and informed throughout by Mokoko Gampiot’s intimate knowledge of the customs and language of Kimbanguism, this is an unparalleled theological and sociological analysis of a unique African Christian movement.
Report of a Study of the Kimbanguist Church (E.J.C.S.K.), Its Actual Situation and Its Oecumenical Relations
Author: Willy Béguin
Publisher:
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Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
An ecumenical exercise
Author: M. B. Handspicker
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 47
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 47
Book Description
Gesture and Power
Author: Yolanda Covington-Ward
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: 9780822360209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the Lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control. More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as nationalist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to precolonial religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings. In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the diaspora.
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: 9780822360209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the Lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control. More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as nationalist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to precolonial religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings. In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the diaspora.
Modern Kongo Prophets
Author: Wyatt MacGaffey
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Essence of Kimbanguist Theology
Author: Joseph Diangienda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Kimbangu
Author: Marie-Louise Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608304601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608304601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
City of 201 Gods
Author: Jacob Olupona
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520265564
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The author focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa: the Yoruba city of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yoruba traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. He describes how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, he corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yoruba sense of place.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520265564
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The author focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa: the Yoruba city of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yoruba traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. He describes how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, he corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yoruba sense of place.