Chosen Peoples : : Christianity and political imagination in South Sudan / / Christopher Tounsel.

On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion which the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from Arab and...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham, England : : Duke University Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • The Nugent School and the ethno-religious politics of religious education
  • The Equatorial Corps and the Torit Mutiny
  • Liberation War
  • Khartoum Goliath : the martial theology of SPLM/SPLA update
  • The troubled Promised Land.