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Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church (Hardcover)
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Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church (Hardcover)
Series: The International African Library
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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.
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