Remembering and Suffering:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Remembering and Suffering: "
Ruy Llera Blanes

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1066847
Doc. No	:	LA110476
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157254309X425391‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ruy Llera Blanes
Title & Author	:	Remembering and Suffering: [Article] : Memory and Shifting Allegiances in the Angolan Tokoist Church\ Ruy Llera Blanes
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2009
Volume/ Issue Number	:	38/2
Page No	:	161–181
Abstract	:	In this article I offer a historical and ethnographic account of the Angolan 'Tokoist church'. I start by underlining the reasons behind its 'forgotten history' in terms of academic debates on African Christianity, and then discuss its place within the 'Congo prophet paradigm'. This historical approach opens ground for the discussion between the different doctrinal and ideological tensions (the place of Bakongo ethnicity and Angolan nationality) that motivated its particular institutional growth — tensions and conflicts that are still in play in the recent developments of the church in Angola. Finally, I will argue that the recent transformation of the church into a transnational venture turned out to be a strategy for the overcoming of those tensions. In this article I offer a historical and ethnographic account of the Angolan 'Tokoist church'. I start by underlining the reasons behind its 'forgotten history' in terms of academic debates on African Christianity, and then discuss its place within the 'Congo prophet paradigm'. This historical approach opens ground for the discussion between the different doctrinal and ideological tensions (the place of Bakongo ethnicity and Angolan nationality) that motivated its particular institutional growth — tensions and conflicts that are still in play in the recent developments of the church in Angola. Finally, I will argue that the recent transformation of the church into a transnational venture turned out to be a strategy for the overcoming of those tensions.
Descriptor	:	'AFRICANITY'
Descriptor	:	ANGOLA
Descriptor	:	BAKONGO ETHNICITY
Descriptor	:	CONGO
Descriptor	:	MEMORY
Descriptor	:	TOKOISM
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157254309X425391‬