In this volume, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, a sociologist and son of a Kimbanguist pastor, brings a fresh and insightful perspective on African Kimbanguism and its traditions.
The largest of the African-initiated churches, Kimbanguism claims seventeen million followers worldwide. Like other such churches, it originated out of black African resistance to colonization in the early twentieth century and advocates reconstructing blackness by appropriating the parameters of Christian identity. Mokoko Gampiot provides a contextual history of the religion’s origins and development, compares Kimbanguism with other African-initiated churches and with earlier movements of political and spiritual liberation, and explores the implicit and explicit racial dynamics of Christian identity that inform church leaders and lay practitioners. He explains how Kimbanguists understand their own blackness as both a curse and a mission and how that underlying belief spurs them to continuously reinterpret the Bible through their own prisms.
Drawing from an unprecedented investigation into Kimbanguism’s massive body of oral traditions—recorded sermons, participant observations of church services and healing sessions, and translations of hymns—and informed throughout by Mokoko Gampiot’s inside knowledge of the customs and language of Kimbanguism, this is an important and unparalleled theological and sociological analysis of a unique African Christian movement.
Aurelien Mokoko Gampiot is a scholar in sociology of religion at the GSRL-CNRS (Sorbonne University). He is the author of two reference books on Kimbanguism for the French-speaking public.
Cecile Coquet-Mokoko is Associate Professor of American and African American Studies at the Universite Francois Rabelais.
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