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Live and Direct- [e-book] : History, Ritual, and Biblical Authority in an African Christian Church (Johane Masowe, Zimbabwe)
Live and Direct- [e-book] : History, Ritual, and Biblical Authority in an African Christian Church (Johane Masowe, Zimbabwe)
자료유형  
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ISBN  
0493551115
저자명  
Engelke, Matthew Eric.
서명/저자  
Live and Direct - [e-book] : History, Ritual, and Biblical Authority in an African Christian Church (Johane Masowe, Zimbabwe)
발행사항  
Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia, 2002.
형태사항  
339 p.
주기사항  
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A, page: 0643.
주기사항  
Adviser: Richard Handler.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2002.
초록/해제  
요약 : This dissertation situates the authority of texts in the colonial and postcolonial world through an examination of the Bible as a physical object, religious document, and symbol of power. The Bible has been the most influential book in defining the parameters of the colonial encounter. In Africa, as elsewhere, it has never been a simply religious text; my ethnographic and historical research shows that the Bible in Africa is understood as a powerful metonym for literacy, knowledge, and political authority. The peoples of southern Africa have taken up texts with particular vigor, redefining the Bible's role within Christianity, reassessing its value as a marker of modernity, and appropriating the uses of literacy in social, economic, and political pursuits.
초록/해제  
요약 : Drawing on literature in anthropology, religious studies, and textual studies, I show how the written word has given shape to social and political life in the colonial and postcolonial world. I argue that uses of the Bible in these contexts undermine the fundamental assumptions of textual studies: that the written word "fixes" truth, that literacy structures social organization, and, above all, that "religions of the book" are defined primarily by scripture.
초록/해제  
요약 : I situate these key issues through a case study of the Masowe weChishanu Church, a religious movement inspired in 1932 by a migrant worker from the Makoni District of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), called Johane Masowe, or "The African John the Baptist." Johane claimed he had been sent by God to teach Africans the Christian Word. Yet he criticized the use of texts in the expression of religious faith and said that "real" Christians should reject the Bible. They should instead rely on God's Word as told through prophets "live and direct" to the people. As the first such prophet, Johane was able to build up a substantial following in the eastern and northern parts of Southern Rhodesia. Seventy years later, members of this movement, now found throughout southern Africa, still refer to themselves as "the Christians who don't read the Bible."
기타 저자  
University of Virginia.
수록지명  
Dissertation Abstracts International. 63-02A.
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