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Kimbanguism: An African Understanding of the Bible

Kimbanguism: An African Understanding of the Bible

Mokoko Gampiot, Aurélien
Coquet-Mokoko, Cécile

Hardcover

Series: Signifying (On) Scriptures, Book 5

African HistoryGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0271077557
ISBN13: 9780271077550
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: May 30 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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