Chosen peoples :
Christianity and political imagination in South Sudan /
Christopher Tounsel.

Description

Main Author

Tounsel, Christopher, 1987-

Language(s)

English

Published

©2021
Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Subjects

Politics and government.
International relations.
Ethnic relations > Ethnic relations / Political aspects.
Christianity and politics.
Christianity and politics > Christianity and politics / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025283 / South Sudan.
Sudan.
South Sudan.
Sudan > Sudan / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022301 / Relations > Sudan / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022301 / Relations / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 / South Sudan.
South Sudan > South Sudan / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011104475 / Relations > South Sudan / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011104475 / Relations / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 / Sudan.
South Sudan > South Sudan / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011104475 / Ethnic relations > South Sudan / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011104475 / Ethnic relations / Political aspects.
South Sudan > South Sudan / Politics and government > South Sudan / Politics and government / 2011-
South Sudan > South Sudan / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011104475 / History > South Sudan / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011104475 / History / 21st century.
History.

Summary

"On 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"--

Physical Description

xi, 205 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

ISBN

1478011769
9781478011767
1478010630
9781478010630

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