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A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church
In 1910 Isaiah Shembe was struggling. He had left his family and quit his job as a sanitation worker to become a Baptist evangelist, but he ended his first mission without much to show. Little did he know that he would soon establish the Nazaretha Church as he began to attract attention from people left behind by industrial capitalism in South Africa. By his death in 1935, Shembe was an internationally known prophet and healer, described by his peers as “better off than all the Black people.” In A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church, historian Lauren V. Jarvis provides a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of South Africa’s most famous religious figures, and in turn the making of modern South Africa. Following Shembe from his birth in the 1860s across many environments and contexts, Jarvis illuminates the tight links between the spread of Christianity, strategies of evasion, and the capacious forms of community that continue to shape South Africa today.
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A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church
In 1910 Isaiah Shembe was struggling. He had left his family and quit his job as a sanitation worker to become a Baptist evangelist, but he ended his first mission without much to show. Little did he know that he would soon establish the Nazaretha Church as he began to attract attention from people left behind by industrial capitalism in South Africa. By his death in 1935, Shembe was an internationally known prophet and healer, described by his peers as “better off than all the Black people.” In A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church, historian Lauren V. Jarvis provides a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of South Africa’s most famous religious figures, and in turn the making of modern South Africa. Following Shembe from his birth in the 1860s across many environments and contexts, Jarvis illuminates the tight links between the spread of Christianity, strategies of evasion, and the capacious forms of community that continue to shape South Africa today.
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A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church

A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church

by Lauren V. Jarvis
A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church
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A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church

A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church

by Lauren V. Jarvis

Overview

In 1910 Isaiah Shembe was struggling. He had left his family and quit his job as a sanitation worker to become a Baptist evangelist, but he ended his first mission without much to show. Little did he know that he would soon establish the Nazaretha Church as he began to attract attention from people left behind by industrial capitalism in South Africa. By his death in 1935, Shembe was an internationally known prophet and healer, described by his peers as “better off than all the Black people.” In A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church, historian Lauren V. Jarvis provides a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of South Africa’s most famous religious figures, and in turn the making of modern South Africa. Following Shembe from his birth in the 1860s across many environments and contexts, Jarvis illuminates the tight links between the spread of Christianity, strategies of evasion, and the capacious forms of community that continue to shape South Africa today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611864847
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 03/01/2024
Series: African History and Culture
Pages: 440
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Lauren V. Jarvis is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jarvis is interested in the history of religion and inequality in South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays and Mellon-ACLS programs, and her work has appeared in the Journal of African History and the Journal of Southern African Studies.
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