Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God

Writings from Ibandla lamaNazaretha, a South African Church

AvElizabeth Gunner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

The role of Africans in the growth and process of Christianity in South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular the book provides an insight into the role of writing and literacy in the church founded by the South African prophet, Isaiah Shembe, in 1910.The book provides a substantial, contextualising introduction which includes discussion of the church’s history and its position in contemporary South Africa, and weaves in discussion of the topics of literacy and modernity. The book then moves to the three documents, presented in their language of composition, Zulu and in an English translation. The three ‘books’, each from Shembe’s Nazareth Baptist Church, provide the reader with a fascinating insight into the growth and organisation of one of southern Africa’s most influential African Churches, and into the use and interpretation of the Bible by the church’s founder, Isaiah Shembe, and by church members. Central to the writings is the complex presence of Shembe, present both through his own words in the first book and, in the second book, through the memory of Meshack Hadebe, a member of the church in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The extracts in the third book provide a glimpse of the church’s hymnal and the unique religious poetry of the hymns, authored by Shembe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-04-05
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:594 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies of Religion in Africa
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004125421

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Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

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Elizabeth Gunner, Ph.D. (1984) in African Languages and Literatures, School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, is Professor of English Studies, School of Language, Culture and Communication at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Her most recent publications are a literary afterword to Zulu Woman. The Life Story of Christina Sibiya by Rebecca Reyher and "Wrestling with the Present, Remembering the Past: Zulu Radio Drama in Contemporary South Africa" (in Journal of Southern African Studies, 2000).