Isaiah Shembe's prophetic uhlanga : the worldview of the Nazareth Baptist Church in colonial South Africa / Joel E. Tishken.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-224) and index.

Introduction. Colonization and missionization in eastern South Africa, 1820s-1930s -- A brief history of the Nazareth Baptist Church -- African responses to imperialism: historiography and theory of colonial Africa -- Shembe's prophetic response to colonialism. Prophecy, oralture, and literature: the documentary history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, 1910s-1990s. Oralture and literature: the genesis of a prophetic church record, 1910-1935 -- Preserving a prophetic church history, 1935-1990s -- Catechism of the Nazarites -- Acts of the Nazarites -- The Nazareth Baptist Church's documentary record and the historian -- Provenance -- Narrative voice and Shembe -- The documentary record and church membership -- Conclusion. Prophecy, history, memory, and legitimacy in the biography of Isaiah Shembe, ca. 1870-1910. Explaining the allure of Shembe's biography -- The making of a prophet: the prophetic biography of the early life of Isaiah Shembe -- Shembe's calling and the founding of the Nazareth Baptist Church -- Shembe's prophetic aura and ministry -- Conclusion. A prophetic worldview amid empire: the history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, 1910-1935. Accusation and acquittal: church-state relations, ca. 1910-ca. 1920 -- State interventions of the Nazareth Baptist Church, 1922 to 1931 -- Maneuvering at the margins: the history of the Nazareth Baptist Church, ca. 1920 to 1935 -- Conclusion. Prophecy, theology, and the identity of the chosen. Theophanic sites -- Ekuphakameni: the New Jerusalem -- Mt. Nhlangakazi -- Soteriology -- The sabbath -- God's laws -- The identity of the chosen. Sacrament, ritual, and identity. Lord's supper -- Baptism -- Ukusina -- UmNazaretha -- Conclusion. Conclusion. Neither resistant nor acquiescent: positioning the Nazareth Baptist Church historiographically -- Comparative dimensions -- After apartheid.

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