Isaiah Shembe's prophetic uhlanga : the worldview of the Nazareth Baptist Church in colonial South Africa /
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Table of Contents:
- 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.