The spiritual Mandela : faith and religion in the life of Nelson Mandela /

Cruywagen traces the spiritual component of Nelson Mandela's life, from his youth in a traditional Thembu village to his education at Wesleyan and Methodist mission schools to his time as an activist to his period on Robben Island and the years thereafter. He traces the ways in which Mandela ba...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cruywagen, Dennis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Watertown, MA : Imagine, 2018
Edition:First US Edition
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Spiritual origins
  • A Methodist education
  • The runaway
  • Politics, before anything else
  • Taking up arms
  • An imprisonment of the spirit
  • The sacrament behind bars
  • Confessions of faith
  • A transcendental leader
  • Last rites