To Manifest African Destiny: The (Spiritual) Revolution, Pentecostal Belonging, and the Past in Zanzibar
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To Manifest African Destiny : The (Spiritual) Revolution, Pentecostal Belonging, and the Past in Zanzibar. / Olsson, Hans Göran.
Across the Waves : Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies . ed. / Iain Walker; Marie-Aude Fouéré. Leiden : Brill, 2022. p. 96-123 (African Social Studies Series, Vol. 44).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - To Manifest African Destiny
T2 - The (Spiritual) Revolution, Pentecostal Belonging, and the Past in Zanzibar
AU - Olsson, Hans Göran
PY - 2022/3/28
Y1 - 2022/3/28
N2 - This chapter deals with how the past is influencing the formation of religious belonging in present-day Zanzibar. It analyses Pentecostal Christians’ engagement with the past when interpreting experiences of violence, conflict and contestations. Through ethnographic research, the case highlights that certain elements of Zanzibar’s history–African slavery and Muslim Arab domination over Africans–become important features in the making of Christian belonging, a cornerstone in an ongoing narrative for liberating people, land and nation(s) from evil in the present and the future. With Pentecostal Christian migrants situating their presence, growth, and influence in society in continuation with scripts of the Zanzibar revolution and constitution of the Union between Zanzibar and Tanganyika in the 1960s, the chapter highlights Pentecostal Christians’ engagements with the past to reveal processes of emplacement, localization and agency between positions of inclusion and exclusion.
AB - This chapter deals with how the past is influencing the formation of religious belonging in present-day Zanzibar. It analyses Pentecostal Christians’ engagement with the past when interpreting experiences of violence, conflict and contestations. Through ethnographic research, the case highlights that certain elements of Zanzibar’s history–African slavery and Muslim Arab domination over Africans–become important features in the making of Christian belonging, a cornerstone in an ongoing narrative for liberating people, land and nation(s) from evil in the present and the future. With Pentecostal Christian migrants situating their presence, growth, and influence in society in continuation with scripts of the Zanzibar revolution and constitution of the Union between Zanzibar and Tanganyika in the 1960s, the chapter highlights Pentecostal Christians’ engagements with the past to reveal processes of emplacement, localization and agency between positions of inclusion and exclusion.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004510104_006
DO - 10.1163/9789004510104_006
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-90-04-51009-8
T3 - African Social Studies Series
SP - 96
EP - 123
BT - Across the Waves
A2 - Walker, Iain
A2 - Fouéré, Marie-Aude
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
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