03226nam 2200637Ia 450 991082122210332120200520144314.00-8214-4330-5(CKB)2560000000052907(EBL)1757105(OCoLC)694096985(SSID)ssj0000421829(PQKBManifestationID)11261651(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421829(PQKBWorkID)10415836(PQKB)10852508(MiAaPQ)EBC1757105(EXLCZ)99256000000005290720100511d2010 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe law and the prophets Black consciousness in South Africa, 1968-1977 /Daniel R. MagazinerAthens Ohio University Pressc20101 online resource (299 p.)New African histories seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-1917-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Seventies; Part I: Making Black Consciousness; 1: Sophiatown after the Fall; 2: "Black man, you are on your own!"; 3: The Age of Philosophers; Part II: Emergent Gospel; 4: Church, State, and the Death of God; 5: Christ in Context; 6: The South African Voice; Part III: The Movement; 7: "I write what I like"; 8: The Age of Politics; 9: Keeping Faith with the Black Messiah; Conclusion: Yesterday Is a Foreign Country; Notes; Bibliography; Index"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 1970's 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 1960's 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...New African histories series.BlacksRace identitySouth AfricaHistoryBlack nationalismSouth AfricaHistoryBlack nationalismReligious aspectsChristianityAnti-apartheid movementsSouth AfricaHistoryAnti-apartheid movementsReligious aspectsChristianityBlack theologySouth AfricaPolitics and government1961-1978BlacksRace identityHistory.Black nationalismHistory.Black nationalismReligious aspectsChristianity.Anti-apartheid movementsHistory.Anti-apartheid movementsReligious aspectsChristianity.Black theology.305.896/06809047Magaziner Daniel R992860MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821222103321The Law and the Prophets3973044UNINA