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Author : Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen
Release : 2023-08-14
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 620/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theology of a South African Messiah by : Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen
Download or read book Theology of a South African Messiah written by Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen. This book was released on 2023-08-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Ann Muller
Release : 1999
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 197/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire by : Carol Ann Muller
Download or read book Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire written by Carol Ann Muller. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Muller breaks new ground in the study of this changing region and along the way she includes details of her own poignant journey, as a young, white South African woman, to the other side of a divided society.
Author : Edley J. Moodley
Release : 2008-08-18
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 806/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shembe, Ancestors, and Christ by : Edley J. Moodley
Download or read book Shembe, Ancestors, and Christ written by Edley J. Moodley. This book was released on 2008-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian axis has shifted dramatically southward to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, so much so that today there are more Christians living in these southern regions than among their northern counterparts. In the case of Africa, the African Initiated Churches-founded by Africans and primarily for Africans-has largely contributed to the exponential growth and proliferation of the Christian faith in the continent. Yet, even more profoundly, these churches espouse a brand of Christianity that is indigenized and thoroughly contextual. Further, the power and popularity of the AICs, beyond the unprecedented numbers joining these churches, are attributed to their relevance to the existential everyday needs and concerns of their adherents in the context of a postcolonial Africa. At the heart of Christian theology is Christology-the confessed uniqueness of Christ in history and among world religions. Yet this key feature of Christianity, as with other important elements of the Christian faith, may be variously understood and re-interpreted in these indigenous churches. The focus of this study is the amaNazaretha Church, an influential religious group founded by the African charismatic prophet Isaiah Shembe in 1911 in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The movement today claims a following of some two million adherents and has proliferated beyond the borders of South Africa to neighboring countries in Southern Africa. The book addresses the complex and at times ambivalent understanding of the person and work of Christ in the amaNazaretha Church, presenting the genesis, history, beliefs, and practices of this significant religious movement in South Africa, with broader implications for similar movements across the continent of Africa and beyond.
Author : Joel Cabrita
Release : 2014-04-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 129/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church by : Joel Cabrita
Download or read book Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church written by Joel Cabrita. This book was released on 2014-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational evangelical literary culture, Nazaretha believers have patterned their lives upon the Christian Bible. They cast themselves as actors who enact scriptural drama upon African soil. But Nazaretha believers also believe the existing Christian Bible to be in need of updating and revision. For this reason, they have written further scriptures - a new 'Bible' - which testify to the miraculous work of their founding prophet, Shembe. Joel Cabrita's book charts the key role that these sacred texts play in making, breaking and contesting social power and authority, both within the church and more broadly in South African public life.
Author : Nkosinathi Sithole
Release : 2016-06-21
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 628/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha by : Nkosinathi Sithole
Download or read book Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha written by Nkosinathi Sithole. This book was released on 2016-06-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha, Nkosinathi Sithole explores the hymns of Prophet Isaiah Shembe and the sacred dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha, and offers an emic perspective on the Church which has attracted scholars from different disciplines. Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha posits that in the hymns, Shembe found a powerful medium through which he could voice his concerns as an African in colonial times, while praising and worshipping God. Sithole also refutes claims by some scholars that the sacred dance was a response to colonialism and oppression, showing that in fact the sacred dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha is considered to be a form of worship and is thought to exist on earth and in heaven.
