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African pilgrimage : ritual travel in South Africa's Christianity of Zion
- Title
- African pilgrimage : ritual travel in South Africa's Christianity of Zion / Retief Müller.
- Author
- Müller, Retief
- Publication
- New York, NY ; Abington, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
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- Description
- viii, 213 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the bottom end of the social ladder to make sense of their world. This book describes a South Africa that is made up of a number of different fragmented worlds. The focus is on the Zion Christian Church, one of the largest religious movements in southern Africa, and a good example of indigenized African Christianity. Pilgrimage plays an important role in reintegrating some of those fragmented worlds into something approaching wholeness. This book tells the story of how the enduring ritual of pilgrimage is transforming African religion, along with the lives of ordinary South Africans."--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Zion Christian Church (Limpopo, South Africa)
- African Independent Church
- Zionist churches (Africa) > South Africa > Customs and practices
- Christianity > South Africa
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages > South Africa
- Independent churches > South Africa
- Rites and ceremonies > South Africa
- South Africa > Religion > 21st century
- Note
- Originally published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction. Introduction and background -- Part II. The local church context. ZCC worship observed : a world within worlds -- The ZCC pulpit : a rhetorical focal point in the local church -- The prophet's word : charismatic discourse at the grassroots -- Part III. Pilgrimage to Moria : a sacred center in a rural periphery. A "New Year's" festival at the ZCC headquarters -- Zion City revisited -- Part IV. Outward-bound pilgrimage : the ZCC Bishop in the center. The traveling church -- A border-crossing pilgrimage -- Part V. Conclusion. The ZCC enigma and the role of pilgrimage.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-823
- ISBN
- 9781409430827
- 1409430820
- OCLC
- 1272909207
- Author
- Müller, Retief, author.
- Title
- African pilgrimage : ritual travel in South Africa's Christianity of Zion / Retief Müller.
- Publisher
- New York, NY ; Abington, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-823