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Religious entanglements : Central African Pentecostalism, the creation of cultural knowledge, and the making of the Luba Katanga / David Maxwell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Africa and the diasporaPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2022]Description: xix, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780299337506
  • 0299337502
Subject(s):
Contents:
1. Primitivism and Pragmatism in the Making of the Congo Evangelistic Mission -- 2. Luba Transformations prior to 1910 -- 3. Continuity and Change in the Luba Christian Movement -- 4. Missions and the State: The Challenge of Pentecostalism -- 5. "Acquainting Oneself with the Enemy": Making Knowledge about Africa -- 6. Pathways to Knowledge -- 7. The Creation of Lubaland: Missionary Science and Christian Literacy in the Making of the Luba Katanga -- 8. Finding God among the Luba: Missionary Conversions and Epiphanies.
Summary: Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 into one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa, today boasting more than one million members in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on artifacts, images, documents, and interviews, David Maxwell examines the roles of missionaries and their African collaborators-the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga-in producing knowledge about Africa. Through the careful reconstruction of knowledge pathways, Maxwell brings into focus the role of Africans in shaping texts, collections, and images as well as in challenging and adapting Western-imported presuppositions and prejudices. Ultimately, Maxwell illustrates the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and reveals not only how the Luba shaped missionary research but also how these coproducers of knowledge constructed and critiqued custom and convened new ethnic communities. Making a significant intervention in the study of both the history of African Christianity and the cultural transformations effected by missionary encounters across the globe, Religious Entanglements excavates the subculture of African Pentecostalism, revealing its potentiality for radical sociocultural change.
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The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators--the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga--in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and how the Luba shaped missionary research.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 into one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa, today boasting more than one million members in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on artifacts, images, documents, and interviews, David Maxwell examines the roles of missionaries and their African collaborators-the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga-in producing knowledge about Africa. Through the careful reconstruction of knowledge pathways, Maxwell brings into focus the role of Africans in shaping texts, collections, and images as well as in challenging and adapting Western-imported presuppositions and prejudices. Ultimately, Maxwell illustrates the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and reveals not only how the Luba shaped missionary research but also how these coproducers of knowledge constructed and critiqued custom and convened new ethnic communities. Making a significant intervention in the study of both the history of African Christianity and the cultural transformations effected by missionary encounters across the globe, Religious Entanglements excavates the subculture of African Pentecostalism, revealing its potentiality for radical sociocultural change.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Primitivism and Pragmatism in the Making of the Congo Evangelistic Mission -- 2. Luba Transformations prior to 1910 -- 3. Continuity and Change in the Luba Christian Movement -- 4. Missions and the State: The Challenge of Pentecostalism -- 5. "Acquainting Oneself with the Enemy": Making Knowledge about Africa -- 6. Pathways to Knowledge -- 7. The Creation of Lubaland: Missionary Science and Christian Literacy in the Making of the Luba Katanga -- 8. Finding God among the Luba: Missionary Conversions and Epiphanies.

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