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Author : Joel Cabrita
Release : 2014-04-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 435/5 ( 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: This book tells the story of one of the largest and most influential African churches in South Africa.
Author : Isaiah Shembe
Release : 2010
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 363/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis IziHlabelelo ZamaNazaretha by : Isaiah Shembe
Download or read book IziHlabelelo ZamaNazaretha written by Isaiah Shembe. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts comprise the original isiZulu hymns as well as English translations, and are brought to life with an accompanying compact disc of song, story and interview excerpts. These include detail about the seminal moment of change and controversy in the 1990s, when the organ was introduced by church member and ethnomusicologist, Bongani Mthethwa, to accompany the Shembe hymnal repertory. The initiative gave birth to dozens of youth choirs who sang the hymns in a new style, and began to compose their own repertory about Shembe in a more `gospel-inflected' musical version of their faith. --
Author : Elizabeth Gunner
Release : 2021-11-08
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 688/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God by : Elizabeth Gunner
Download or read book The Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God written by Elizabeth Gunner. This book was released on 2021-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Africans in the growth and process of Christianity in South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular the book provides an insight into the role of writing and literacy in the church founded by the South African prophet, Isaiah Shembe, in 1910. The book provides a substantial, contextualising introduction which includes discussion of the church’s history and its position in contemporary South Africa, and weaves in discussion of the topics of literacy and modernity. The book then moves to the three documents, presented in their language of composition, Zulu and in an English translation. The three ‘books’, each from Shembe’s Nazareth Baptist Church, provide the reader with a fascinating insight into the growth and organisation of one of southern Africa’s most influential African Churches, and into the use and interpretation of the Bible by the church’s founder, Isaiah Shembe, and by church members. Central to the writings is the complex presence of Shembe, present both through his own words in the first book and, in the second book, through the memory of Meshack Hadebe, a member of the church in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The extracts in the third book provide a glimpse of the church’s hymnal and the unique religious poetry of the hymns, authored by Shembe.
Author : Irving Hexham
Release : 1996
Genre : Ekupakameni (South Africa)
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Book Rating : 302/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Story of Isaiah Shembe by : Irving Hexham
Download or read book The Story of Isaiah Shembe written by Irving Hexham. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Hexham
Release : 2011-03-22
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Understanding World Religions by : Irving Hexham
Download or read book Understanding World Religions written by Irving Hexham. This book was released on 2011-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead to the same God or the same moral life fails to account for the distinctive origins and radically different teachings found across the world’s many religions. Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out. Of particular importance is Hexham’s decision to explore African religions, which have frequently been absent from major religion texts. He surveys these in addition to varieties of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
