A Prophet of the People

Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church

Lauren V. Jarvis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

323 Seiten

2024
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-484-7 (ISBN)

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In 1910 Isaiah Shembe was struggling. He had left his family and quit his job as a sanitation worker to become a Baptist evangelist, but he ended his first mission without much to show. Little did he know that he would soon establish the Nazaretha Church as he began to attract attention from people left behind by industrial capitalism in South Africa. By his death in 1935, Shembe was an internationally known prophet and healer, described by his peers as “better off than all the Black people.” In A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church, historian Lauren V. Jarvis provides a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of South Africa’s most famous religious figures, and in turn the making of modern South Africa. Following Shembe from his birth in the 1860s across many environments and contexts, Jarvis illuminates the tight links between the spread of Christianity, strategies of evasion, and the capacious forms of community that continue to shape South Africa today.

Lauren V. Jarvis is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jarvis is interested in the history of religion and inequality in South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays and Mellon-ACLS programs, and her work has appeared in the Journal of African History and the Journal of Southern African Studies.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. An Inheritor in the Free State Chapter 2. A Baptist in Town Chapter 3. An Evangelist in Durban Chapter 4. A Guest in the Reserves Chapter 5. A Landowner in Inanda Chapter 6. A Matchmaker at Ekuphakameni Chapter 7. A Dissident in Southern Zululand Chapter 8. A Celebrity in South Africa Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	African History and Culture
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-61186-484-4 / 1611864844
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-484-7 / 9781611864847
Zustand	Neuware