Blanes, Ruy Llera2015-11-202015-11-202011Blanes, R. L. (2011). Unstable Biographies. The Ethnography of Memory and Historicity in an Angolan Prophetic Movement. History and Anthropology, 22-1, 93-1190275-72061477-2612http://hdl.handle.net/10451/20545In this article I discuss issues of memory and historicity in a contemporary African prophetic movement, the Tokoist church. I do so by focusing on the multiple processes of “biographization” of the prophet’s (Simão Toko) life from the different allegiances within the movement. I suggest that, despite recent critiques on the biographical method, the ethnography of those (unstable and heterogeneous) processes can be very helpful to understand the place of memory and historical consciousness in contemporary Christianity.engAngola - ReligiãoIgreja tokoistajournal article10.1080/02757206.2011.546854