Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe: The Salvation Army and African Liberation, 1891-1991 - Softcover

Murdoch, Norman H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162564681X ISBN 13: 9781625646811

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Norman H. Murdoch is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he taught from 1968 until 2005. He is the author of Origins of The Salvation Army (1994) and numerous other books and articles.

Harold Hill holds a Ph.D. from the Victoria University of Wellington, and has been a Salvation Army officer since 1972, serving in Zimbabwe and then in pastoral, educational and administrative work in New Zealand. He has degrees in history and theology from Victoria and Otago Universities. He lives in Wellington with his wife, Pat, and they have two adult daughters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 162564681X
• ISBN 13: 9781625646811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Hill Harold