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Title:	Part special issue: religious biography
Authors:	von Oppen, Achim Strickrodt, Silke
Year:	2012
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies (ISSN 1465-3893)
Volume:	38
Issue:	3
Pages:	429-490
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	South Africa Tanzania
Subjects:	biography Christianity
About persons:	Seth Mokitimi Isaiah Mdliwamfa Shembe (c.1870-1935)
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/38/3
Abstract:	The three case studies comprising this part special issue focus on two important Southern African religious actors in the twentieth century: Isaiah Shembe and Seth Mokitimi, and also include a study of the everyday lives of 'ordinary' women believers (African Lutheran women) in South Africa and Tanganyika whose voices have rarely been heard in the wider world and subsequent generations. This type of biographical research illustrates, amongst others, how these religious actors often acted as 'brokers' across boundaries which in this region were particularly rigid. Contributions: Patriot and prophet: John Dube's 1936 biography of the South African churchman Isaiah Shembe (Joel Cabrita); A German-Christian network of letters in colonial Africa as a repository for 'ordinary' biographies of women, 1931-1967 (Lize Kriel); South Africa and beyond: Seth Mokitimi and the 'kingdom without barriers', 1939-1964 (Deborah Gaitskell). Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]