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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.
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: General Background
Chapter 1. Europe in Africa
Chapter 2. African responses: the birth of African Christianities
Chapter 3. Kimbanguism as a Social Movement
Part Two: Kimbanguism and the Bible
Chapter 4. The Three Sources of Kimbanguist Theology
Chapter 5. The Identity of Simon Kimbangu in Contemporary Kimbanguist Faith
Chapter 6. The Field of Miraculous Healing
PartThree: Expressions of Kimbanguist Messianism
Chapter 7. Kimbanguist Prophetism, Messianism, and Millennarianism
Chapter 8. A Theology of Identity Reconstruction in a Global Context
Chapter 9. Reclaiming Kimbangu's Prophetic heritage
Notes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
