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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa - A Church of Strangers (Hardcover)
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa - A Church of Strangers (Hardcover)
Series: The International African Library
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of
Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing
branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa.
Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG
insists that relationships with God be devoid of 'emotions', that
socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity
and fellowship are 'useless' in materialising God's blessings.
Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to
God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness.
While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative,
this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity
to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human
bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people
rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into
the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early
1990s.
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