Memory and Shifting Allegiances in the Angolan Tokoist Church
نام نخستين پديدآور
Ruy Llera Blanes
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
In this article I offer a historical and ethnographic account of the Angolan 'Tokoist church'. I start by underlining the reasons behind its 'forgotten history' in terms of academic debates on African Christianity, and then discuss its place within the 'Congo prophet paradigm'. This historical approach opens ground for the discussion between the different doctrinal and ideological tensions (the place of Bakongo ethnicity and Angolan nationality) that motivated its particular institutional growth - tensions and conflicts that are still in play in the recent developments of the church in Angola. Finally, I will argue that the recent transformation of the church into a transnational venture turned out to be a strategy for the overcoming of those tensions. In this article I offer a historical and ethnographic account of the Angolan 'Tokoist church'. I start by underlining the reasons behind its 'forgotten history' in terms of academic debates on African Christianity, and then discuss its place within the 'Congo prophet paradigm'. This historical approach opens ground for the discussion between the different doctrinal and ideological tensions (the place of Bakongo ethnicity and Angolan nationality) that motivated its particular institutional growth - tensions and conflicts that are still in play in the recent developments of the church in Angola. Finally, I will argue that the recent transformation of the church into a transnational venture turned out to be a strategy for the overcoming of those tensions.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2009
توصيف ظاهري
161-181
عنوان
Exchange
شماره جلد
38/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1572-543X
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
'AFRICANITY'
اصطلاح موضوعی
ANGOLA
اصطلاح موضوعی
BAKONGO ETHNICITY
اصطلاح موضوعی
CONGO
اصطلاح موضوعی
MEMORY
اصطلاح موضوعی
TOKOISM
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