Chosen Peoples : Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series .
- Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Winds of Change -- 1. The Nugent School and the Ethno-Religious Politics of Mission Education -- 2. The Equatorial Corps and the Torit Mutiny -- 3. Liberation War -- 4. Khartoum Goliath: The Martial Theology of SPLM/SPLA Update -- 5. The Troubled Promised Land -- Conclusion: Inheriting the Wind -- Sources and Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan from the early twentieth century to the present.