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Author Magaziner, Daniel R

Title The law and the prophets : Black consciousness in South Africa, 1968-1977 / Daniel R. Magaziner
Published Athens : Ohio University Press ; Johannesburg : Jacana, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : maps
Series New African histories series
New African histories series.
Contents Sophiatown after the fall : the sixties -- "Black man, you are on your own!" : Black students, white liberals, and adulthood -- The age of philosophers : becoming "Black consciousness" -- Church, state, and the death of God : a prolegomenon to the Black Messiah -- Christ in context : the changing face of Christianity -- The South African voice : from Black theology to the Black Messiah -- "I write what I like" : conscientization, culture, and politicization -- The age of politics : confronting the state -- Keeping faith with the Black Messiah : suffering, hope, and the cost of the future -- Yesterday is a foreign country
Summary ""No nation can win a battle without faith," Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force. The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of years bridged the banning and exile of the country's best-known antiapartheid leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests that erupted after the Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976. Scholars thus know that something happened--yet they have only recently begun to explore how and why. The Law and the Prophets is an intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977; it follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. It differs from previous antiapartheid historiography, however, in that it focuses more on ideas than on people and organizations. Its singular contribution is an exploration of the theological turn that South African politics took during this time. Magaziner argues that only by understanding how ideas about race, faith, and selfhood developed and were transformed in this period might we begin to understand the dramatic changes that took place."--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa -- History
SUBJECT Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa fast
Subject Black people -- Race identity -- South Africa -- History
Black nationalism -- South Africa -- History
Black nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- History
Anti-apartheid movements -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Black theology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Anti-apartheid movements
Black nationalism
Black theology
Black people -- Race identity
Politics and government
Black-Consciousness-Bewegung
Christentum
SUBJECT South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1961-1978. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125492
Subject South Africa
Südafrika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010019134
ISBN 9780821443309
0821443305