Kingdom Come - The Politics of Faith Freedom in Segregationist South Africa Beyond

Tshepo Masango Chéry charts a new genealogy of early twentieth-century Black Christian activists who challenged racism in South Africa before the solidification of apartheid by using faith as a strategy against global racism.

List of contents

Abbreviations  ix
Tlhompo/Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Thy Kingdom Come on Earth  1
1. “My Blood Is a Million Stories”: The Making of Coloured Identity  13
2. Faith of Our Fathers: The Ethiopian Movement and African Identities  29
3. In the Name of the Father: The Manye Sisters and Church Formation  54
4. Ministries of Migration: George McGuire, Robert Josias Morgan, and the Transformation of Black Churches in the West Indies and the United States  83
5. Garvey’s God: Racial Uplift and the Creation of the African Orthodox Church  105
6. “We See on the Horizon the Sun of African Orthodoxy”: Church Growth in Southern Africa  122
7. Seeds of Freedom: Growing Orthodoxy and Freedom in East Africa  151
Epilogue: Thy Will Be Done  179
Notes  187
Bibliography  219
Index  239

About the author

Tshepo Masango Chéry is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston.

Summary

Tshepo Masango Chéry charts a new genealogy of early twentieth-century Black Christian activists who challenged racism in South Africa before the solidification of apartheid by using faith as a strategy against global racism.

Product details

• Authors: Tshepo Masango ChTry, Tshepo Masango Chery, Tshepo Masango Chéry
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781478017226
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1722-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People; Religious Cultures of African
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous