LEADER 02802nam 2200469 450 001 9910512209103321 005 20230608215818.0 010 $a1-4780-1310-9 035 $a(CKB)5590000000429787 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000429787 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000429787 100 $a20230508d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChosen Peoples $eChristianity and political imagination in South Sudan /$fChristopher Tounsel 210 1$aDurham, England :$cDuke University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-4780-1176-9 327 $aThe Nugent School and the ethno-religious politics of religious education -- The Equatorial Corps and the Torit Mutiny -- Liberation War -- Khartoum Goliath : the martial theology of SPLM/SPLA update -- The troubled Promised Land. 330 $aOn July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion which the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from Arab and Muslim Sudanese to their north and understand themselves as a spiritual community now freed from their oppressors. Less than three years later, however, new conflicts emerged along ethnic lines, belying the liberation theology that had supposedly reached its climactic conclusion with independence. In Chosen Peoples, Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict. From the creation of a colonial-era mission school to halt Islam's spread up the Nile, the centrality of Biblical language in South Sudanese propaganda during the Second Civil War (1983-2005), and post-independence transformations of religious thought in the face of ethnic warfare, Tounsel highlights the potential and limitations of deploying race and Christian theology to unify South Sudan. 517 $aChosen Peoples 606 $aEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 606 $aChristianity and politics 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aInternational relations 607 $aSouth Sudan 607 $aSudan 615 0$aEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aChristianity and politics. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a261.709629 700 $aTounsel$b Christopher$01073295 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910512209103321 996 $aChosen Peoples$92569448 997 $aUNINA