Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe: The Salvation Army and African Liberation, 1891-1991 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625646811)

Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe examines the history of the Salvation Army in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe and its relationships with the state and with the rest of the church. In particular, it examines parallels between events of the first Chimurenga, a rising against European occupation in 1896-97, and the second Chimurenga in the 1970s, the civil war that led to majority rule. At the time of the first, the Salvation Army was barely established in the country; by the second, it was part of the establishment. The book explores the enmeshment of this Christian mission in the institutions of white rule and the painful process of disentanglement necessary by the late twentieth century. Stories of martyrdom and colonial mythology are set in the carefully researched context of ecumenical relations and the Salvation Army's largely unknown and seldom accessible internal politics.

Author: Norman Murdoch
ISBN-10: 162564681X
ISBN-13: 9781625646811
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2015
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d