Joel Cabrita

Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of one of the largest and most influential African churches in South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9781107673137
• ISBN-10: 1107673135
• Artikelnr.: 44890439

Autorenporträt

Joel Cabrita is University Lecturer in World Christianities at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Scholars, subjects and sources: ecumenicism and
literary collaborations in the Nazaretha church; 3. Charting a changing
literary landscape: Isaiah Shembe and the early Zion Movement in South
Africa; 4. Transcription services: young literates and the transformation
of generational relations; 5. The imitation of Christ: healing performances
and Biblical spectacles; 6. Reading from the same page: Bible-writing and
the creation of orthodoxy; 7. Tales of war: women's testimonies and the
crafting of heroic reputations; 8. God loves this chief of ours: oratory
and casting political obedience as religious obligation; 9. Pursuing
recognition: rhetoric and reality in Church-state relations; 10.
Conclusion.