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Love, Power, Sacrifice - Life with the Jesus Army (Hardcover, New)
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Love, Power, Sacrifice - Life with the Jesus Army (Hardcover, New)
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List price R424
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Discovery Miles 3 830
You Save R41 (10%)
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Photographed over twenty years, this is a portrait of the Jesus
Army. For most of us, if we register them at all, they are the
tambourine-wielding, gospel-singing fanatics who intrude on our
Saturday morning shopping excursions. But for the members
themselves, this charismatic Christian sect - often dismissed as a
cult - is a total way of life. Founded in 1969 in Northamptonshire,
England, believers are expected to renounce all their possessions,
live in communes, and share all earnings. Their motto, and three
basic tenets - "Love, Power and Sacrifice" - form the title of this
book.It would be easy to ridicule belief, but instead photographer
John Angerson has adopted another approach - a profoundly
sympathetic authorial style which does not judge, or even simply
chronicle, but seems to penetrate the very skin of a religious
sect. What gives these photographs an eerie relevance today is that
fanatical religious belief has, seemingly out of the blue, come to
the foreground of contemporary life. From the Christian
fundamentalist certainties that have underpinned recent American
policy, to the Islamic extremism that has erupted everywhere from
New York to London and Madrid, competing religious beliefs have
redrawn the contours of the modern world. Angerson's photographs
provide a searing insight in a world within a world. By peering
into this microcosm of fanatical religion we can begin to
understand a phenomenon that it is no longer possible to ignore.
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