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Kimbanguism An African Understanding of the Bible Unknown - 2017 - 1st Edition

by Mokoko Gampiot, Aur�lien


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A comprehensive study of Kimbanguism, founded by Simon Kimbangu in 1921. Compares it to other African-initiated churches, and examines its role, alongside other global religious movements, in Black liberation.

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  • Title Kimbanguism An African Understanding of the Bible
  • Author Mokoko Gampiot, Aur�lien
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 290
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penn State University Press
  • Date 2017-04
  • ISBN 9780271077550
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Religious Orientation: Christian

About the author

Aurlien Mokoko Gampiot is a scholar in the sociology of religion at the GSRL-CNRS (Sorbonne University). He is the author of two reference books on Kimbanguism for the French-speaking public.

Ccile Coquet-Mokoko is Associate Professor of American and African American Studies at the Universit Franois Rabelais.

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New. In this volume, Aurelien 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… Read More
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