Joel Cabrita
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96017 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joel Cabrita |
| PRENOMES | Joel |
| SOBRENOME | Cabrita |
| ASSINATURA | CABRITA J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4021-6079 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
Orthographic Arguments
African newspapers could be important conduits for debates around language and identity; more than that, newspapers were often the very crucible through which new African languages emerged. This chapter tells the twentieth-century story of the emergence of a codified written form of siSwati, the vernacular language of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). Yet the appearance of siSwati was far from straightforward, and it appeared relatively late in the …
Accidental Diplomats
Regina Gelana Twala
Politics, Gender and the Global
Two contradictory tendencies mark the historiography of Christianity in South Africa. First, the country has been a rich crucible for important scholarship on Christianity. In a country where 80 per cent of the population currently claim Christian affiliation, it is not hard to imagine why this would be the case. The country has a centuries-old Christian presence, spanning the Protestantism of early Dutch settlers in the Cape to the many European…
Print media and egalitarianism in 1960s Eswatini
From 1950 to 1963, a columnist named 'Kadebona' (The Experienced One) published regular pieces in Izwi lama Swazi (The Voice of the Swazi), the vernacular newspaper of the British protectorate of Swaziland (now named Eswatini). Although lacking definitive evidence, it is probable that Kadebona was John J. Nquku, a leading political figure of colonial Eswatini. Kadebona's 300-plus columns positioned themselves as meeting places for the embryonic S…
Response to Reviewers' Commentary on The People's Zion
It is a great privilege to have three leading scholars of Christianity in Southern Africa engage so thoughtfully with my book, The People's Zion: Southern Africa, the United States and a Transatlantic Faith Healing Movement. There is much that is rich and interesting about their comments that I do not have space to dwell upon at length here. To single out just two points out of many more I could make. First, I was struck by Lauren Jarvis's observ…
Charlotte Walker-Said, Faith, Power and Family
Writing Apartheid
Knowledge production in apartheid-era South Africa was a profoundly collaborative process. In particular, throughout the 1930s-1950s, the joint intellectual labor of both Africans and Europeans created a body of knowledge that codified and celebrated the notion of a distinct realm of Zulu religion. The intertwined careers of Swedish missionary to South Africa Bengt Sundkler and isiZulu-speaking Lutheran pastor-turned-ethnographer Titus Mthembu hi…
The People’s Zion
The People’s Zion
Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa
The People’s Zion
In The People's Zion, Joel Cabrita tells the transatlantic story of Southern Africa's largest popular religious movement, Zionism. It began in Zion City, a utopian community established in 1900 just north of Chicago. The Zionist church, which promoted faith healing, drew tens of thousands of marginalized Americans from across racial and class divides. It also sent missionaries abroad, particularly to Southern Africa, where its uplifting spiritual…
New Histories of Christianity in South Africa
This article charts recent developments in the history of Christianity in South Africa, while also offering a corrective to some of the orthodoxy on the history of Christianity. It begins with an account of two workshops in Cambridge and Johannesburg, where all the authors in this special issue presented. The article calls for a move away from overly rigid typologies of African Christianity, including those first developed by Bengt Sundkler in 19…
Christian Ecumenism, Swazi Nationalism, and a Unified Church for a United Nation, 1920s-1970s
This article discusses the intertwined histories of Christian ecumenism and ethnic nationalism in Swaziland, shedding new light on the importance of Protestant evangelical thought in the formation of nationalist ideology in 20th-century southern Africa. From the 1920s to the 1970s, Swaziland’s Zionist Christians sought to amalgamate Swaziland’s churches under the auspices of a ‘biblical Christianity’ that harked back to the Apostolic era. Their e…
Revisiting ‘Translatability’ and African Christianity
Focusing on the ‘translatability’ of Christianity in Africa is now commonplace. This approach stresses that African Christian practice is thoroughly inculturated and relevant to local cultural concerns. However, in exclusively emphasizing Christianity's indigeneity, an opportunity is lost to understand how Africans entered into complex relationships with North Americans to shape a common field of religious practice. To better illuminate the trans…
New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa
People of Adam
This article analyses the intersection between cosmopolitanism and racist ideologies in the faith healing practices of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Originally from Illinois, USA, this organization was the period's most influential divine healing group. Black and white members, under the leadership of the charismatic John Alexander Dowie, eschewed medical assistance and proclaimed God's power to heal physical affliction. In aff…
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational evangelical literary culture, Nazaretha believers h…
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
Introduction
The Indian Ocean is frequently depicted as a sphere of seamless connectivity, characterized by fluid and wide-ranging exchanges between traders, sea-farers, clerics, intellectuals, and authors. We seek to nuance this depiction by highlighting the importance of specific, place-bound social concerns that tempered these cosmopolitan performances of citizenship with more exclusionary dynamics. Our goal is to emphasize the importance of context, conti…
An Introduction to the Letters of Isaiah Moteka
South African Zionism, one of the most popular Christian movements in modern South Africa, has frequently been interpreted in narrowly indigenous terms, as a local, black appropriation of Christianity, heavily invested in orality and ritual performance. The correspondence of the twentieth-century Zionist minister Isaiah Moteka tells a different story. Moteka honed the craft of letter-writing in order to build and sustain his relationship with Zio…
Making African Christianity
Robert J. Houle (Bethlehem, Lehigh University Press, 2011), xlii +311 pp, $80 hardback, ISBN 9781611460810 Making African Christianity is a study of the North American missionaries and the African
Patriot and Prophet
In 1936, Zulu patriot, John Dube, wrote a biography of local Natal prophet, Isaiah Shembe. Dube's biography – 'UShembe' – contained multiple authorial voices. Partly written by Dube, material was also contributed by Shembe and his followers. This collaborative literary method illuminates how rival theories of civic virtue interacted in early twentieth-century South Africa. Notes *My thanks to Achim von Oppen and Silke Strickrodt for their comment…
Politics and Preaching
Twentieth-century Natal and Zululand chiefs' conversions to the Nazaretha Church allowed them to craft new narratives of political legitimacy and perform them to their subjects. The well-established praising tradition of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Zulu political culture had been an important narrative practice for legitimating chiefs; throughout the twentieth century, the erosion of chiefly power corresponded with a decline in chiefly prai…
Introduction
The Indian Ocean is frequently depicted as a sphere of seamless connectivity, characterized by fluid and wide-ranging exchanges between traders, sea-farers, clerics, intellectuals, and authors. We seek to nuance this depiction by highlighting the importance of specific, place-bound social concerns that tempered these cosmopolitan performances of citizenship with more exclusionary dynamics. Our goal is to emphasize the importance of context, conti…
Politics and Preaching
Twentieth-century Natal and Zululand chiefs' conversions to the Nazaretha Church allowed them to craft new narratives of political legitimacy and perform them to their subjects. The well-established praising tradition of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Zulu political culture had been an important narrative practice for legitimating chiefs; throughout the twentieth century, the erosion of chiefly power corresponded with a decline in chiefly prai…
New Histories of Christianity in South Africa
This article charts recent developments in the history of Christianity in South Africa, while also offering a corrective to some of the orthodoxy on the history of Christianity. It begins with an account of two workshops in Cambridge and Johannesburg, where all the authors in this special issue presented. The article calls for a move away from overly rigid typologies of African Christianity, including those first developed by Bengt Sundkler in 19…
Christian Ecumenism, Swazi Nationalism, and a Unified Church for a United Nation, 1920s-1970s
This article discusses the intertwined histories of Christian ecumenism and ethnic nationalism in Swaziland, shedding new light on the importance of Protestant evangelical thought in the formation of nationalist ideology in 20th-century southern Africa. From the 1920s to the 1970s, Swaziland’s Zionist Christians sought to amalgamate Swaziland’s churches under the auspices of a ‘biblical Christianity’ that harked back to the Apostolic era. Their e…
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Antimicrobial activity of Terminalia macroptera root
Isaiah Shembe's Theological Nationalism, 1920s-1935
This article situates the early twentieth-century writings of the South African NazarethaFootnote1 church and its founder, Isaiah Shembe, within a broader context of Zulu nationalism. Accounts of Zulu nationalism in this period have focused on the role of the Zulu king as a unifying symbol. The Nazaretha church, however, developed a strong polemic against the monarchy, and instead positioned its own leader, Isaiah Shembe, as the unifying national…
Politics and Preaching
Twentieth-century Natal and Zululand chiefs' conversions to the Nazaretha Church allowed them to craft new narratives of political legitimacy and perform them to their subjects. The well-established praising tradition of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Zulu political culture had been an important narrative practice for legitimating chiefs; throughout the twentieth century, the erosion of chiefly power corresponded with a decline in chiefly prai…
The Theology of Food
In the first chapter of The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist, Angel Mendez-Montoya provides the reader with an engaging description of the process of preparing, cooking, and sharing the Mexican dish mole pablano with his family and friends. He likens this to the act of doing theology. The laborious gathering of numerous ingredients, their skillfully intermingling in the act of cooking, and finally, the hospitality of the table where the…
Texts, Authority, and Community in the South African 'Ibandla lamaNazaretha' (Church of the Nazaretha), 1910-1976
This six-decade history of textual production in the Nazaretha church seeks to illuminate the changing practices of governance and community in the church during this period. The church's documentary history provides insight into its leaders' efforts to use texts to govern, centralize and discipline their geographically far-flung, often unruly congregations. In addition to focusing on the documentary regime instituted by the church's leaders, thi…
Patriot and Prophet
In 1936, Zulu patriot, John Dube, wrote a biography of local Natal prophet, Isaiah Shembe. Dube's biography – 'UShembe' – contained multiple authorial voices. Partly written by Dube, material was also contributed by Shembe and his followers. This collaborative literary method illuminates how rival theories of civic virtue interacted in early twentieth-century South Africa. Notes *My thanks to Achim von Oppen and Silke Strickrodt for their comment…
Making African Christianity
Robert J. Houle (Bethlehem, Lehigh University Press, 2011), xlii +311 pp, $80 hardback, ISBN 9781611460810 Making African Christianity is a study of the North American missionaries and the African
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational evangelical literary culture, Nazaretha believers h…
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
Introduction
The Indian Ocean is frequently depicted as a sphere of seamless connectivity, characterized by fluid and wide-ranging exchanges between traders, sea-farers, clerics, intellectuals, and authors. We seek to nuance this depiction by highlighting the importance of specific, place-bound social concerns that tempered these cosmopolitan performances of citizenship with more exclusionary dynamics. Our goal is to emphasize the importance of context, conti…
An Introduction to the Letters of Isaiah Moteka
South African Zionism, one of the most popular Christian movements in modern South Africa, has frequently been interpreted in narrowly indigenous terms, as a local, black appropriation of Christianity, heavily invested in orality and ritual performance. The correspondence of the twentieth-century Zionist minister Isaiah Moteka tells a different story. Moteka honed the craft of letter-writing in order to build and sustain his relationship with Zio…
People of Adam
This article analyses the intersection between cosmopolitanism and racist ideologies in the faith healing practices of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Originally from Illinois, USA, this organization was the period's most influential divine healing group. Black and white members, under the leadership of the charismatic John Alexander Dowie, eschewed medical assistance and proclaimed God's power to heal physical affliction. In aff…
New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa
Revisiting ‘Translatability’ and African Christianity
Focusing on the ‘translatability’ of Christianity in Africa is now commonplace. This approach stresses that African Christian practice is thoroughly inculturated and relevant to local cultural concerns. However, in exclusively emphasizing Christianity's indigeneity, an opportunity is lost to understand how Africans entered into complex relationships with North Americans to shape a common field of religious practice. To better illuminate the trans…
The People’s Zion
The People’s Zion
Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa
The People’s Zion
In The People's Zion, Joel Cabrita tells the transatlantic story of Southern Africa's largest popular religious movement, Zionism. It began in Zion City, a utopian community established in 1900 just north of Chicago. The Zionist church, which promoted faith healing, drew tens of thousands of marginalized Americans from across racial and class divides. It also sent missionaries abroad, particularly to Southern Africa, where its uplifting spiritual…
New Histories of Christianity in South Africa
This article charts recent developments in the history of Christianity in South Africa, while also offering a corrective to some of the orthodoxy on the history of Christianity. It begins with an account of two workshops in Cambridge and Johannesburg, where all the authors in this special issue presented. The article calls for a move away from overly rigid typologies of African Christianity, including those first developed by Bengt Sundkler in 19…
Christian Ecumenism, Swazi Nationalism, and a Unified Church for a United Nation, 1920s-1970s
This article discusses the intertwined histories of Christian ecumenism and ethnic nationalism in Swaziland, shedding new light on the importance of Protestant evangelical thought in the formation of nationalist ideology in 20th-century southern Africa. From the 1920s to the 1970s, Swaziland’s Zionist Christians sought to amalgamate Swaziland’s churches under the auspices of a ‘biblical Christianity’ that harked back to the Apostolic era. Their e…
Charlotte Walker-Said, Faith, Power and Family
Writing Apartheid
Knowledge production in apartheid-era South Africa was a profoundly collaborative process. In particular, throughout the 1930s-1950s, the joint intellectual labor of both Africans and Europeans created a body of knowledge that codified and celebrated the notion of a distinct realm of Zulu religion. The intertwined careers of Swedish missionary to South Africa Bengt Sundkler and isiZulu-speaking Lutheran pastor-turned-ethnographer Titus Mthembu hi…
Response to Reviewers' Commentary on The People's Zion
It is a great privilege to have three leading scholars of Christianity in Southern Africa engage so thoughtfully with my book, The People's Zion: Southern Africa, the United States and a Transatlantic Faith Healing Movement. There is much that is rich and interesting about their comments that I do not have space to dwell upon at length here. To single out just two points out of many more I could make. First, I was struck by Lauren Jarvis's observ…
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