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Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda

Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda

Bruner, Jason

Hardcover

Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Book 75

African HistoryGeneral ChristianityGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1580465846
ISBN13: 9781580465847
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Sep 1 2017
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Reexamines the first twenty years of the East African revival movement in Uganda, 1935-1955, arguing that through the movement African Christians articulated and developed a unique spiritual lifestyle.

Starting in the mid-1930s, East African revivalists (or, Balokole: the saved ones) proclaimed a message of salvation, hoping to revive the mission churches of colonial East Africa. Frustrated by what they believed to be the tepid spiritual state of missionary Christianity, they preached that in order to be saved, converts had to confess publicly the specific sins they had committed, putting them in the light. By walking in the light with other revival brethren, converts reoriented their lives, articulating this reorientation in the stark terms of light and darkness: they had left their dark past and now lived in the light of salvation.

This book uses missionary and Colonial Office archives, contemporary newspapers, archival collections in Uganda, anthropologists' field notes, oral histories, and interviews by the author in order to reexamine the first twenty years of the East African revivalmovement (roughly, 1935-1955). Focusing upon the creative, controversial, and remarkable efforts of the ordinary African Christians who comprised the vast majority of the movement, it challenges previous historical analyses that have seen in the revival the replication of British evangelical holiness spirituality or, alternatively, a manifestation of late colonial dissent. Instead, this study argues, the Balokole revival was a movement through which African Christians articulated and developed a unique spiritual lifestyle, one that responded creatively to the sociopolitical contexts of late colonial East Africa.

Jason Bruner is Assistant Professor of Global Christianityat Arizona State University.

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