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Title:Memory Tales: Representations of Shembe in the Cultural Discourse of African Renaissance
Author:Heuser, AndreasISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:Journal of Religion in Africa
Volume:35
Issue:3
Pages:362-387
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:African Independent Churches
Church history
memory
ideologies
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
About person:Isaiah Shembe (c.1870-1935)ISNI
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27594343.pdf
Abstract:The discourse on African Renaissance in South Africa shapes the current stage of a postapartheid political culture of memory. One of the frameworks of this negotiation of the past is the representation of religion. In particular, religious traditions that formerly occupied a marginalized status in Africanist circles are assimilated into a choreography of memory to complement an archive of liberation struggle. With respect to one of the most influential African Instituted Churches in South Africa, the Nazareth Baptist Church founded by Isaiah Shembe, this article traces an array of memory productions that range from adaptive and mimetic strategies to contrasting textures of church history. Supported by a spatial map of memory, these alternative religious traditions are manifested inside as well as outside the church. Against a hegemonic Afrocentrist vision, they are assembled from fragments of an intercultural milieu of early Nazareth Baptist Church history. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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