Political theology shaped the terms of black proletarianization

Evidence

Competing theo-politics of race thus vied for mastery over South Africa’s coming into being and emergence into modernity as the nineteenth century came to a close. Blacks found themselves squeezed between two cultures of political theology seeking to texture the forces of modernizing proletarianization: a culture of missionary conversion and a culture of political messianism. These two forms of political theology both contest and curtail, structure and stream conditions of proletarianization in the region. They shape who counts and who is simply instrumentalized, who can serve in the Kingdom of Heaven and who banished to underworlds of spirits variously conceived and consumed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1480 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Abolitionism and proslavery theology shared a paternalist denial of Black self-determination — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 220; Political theologies structure who counts as human in proletarianization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1480; Racial political theology governed heterogeneous labor more effectively than individualizing religion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1447 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Political theologies structure who counts as human in proletarianization. #expands (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1480