Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa (Studies in Comparative Religion (Paperback)) - Tapa blanda

Thomas, Linda E.

 
9781570037528: Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa (Studies in Comparative Religion (Paperback))
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ISBN 10: 1570037523 ISBN 13: 9781570037528
Editorial: University of South Carolina Press, 2007

Sinopsis

This is a thought-provoking study of how ritual unites an African community against social and economic hardships.A case study in the transcendent powers of ritual and faith, ""Under the Canopy"" illustrates how the healing rites performed at St. John's Apostolic Faith Mission Church, located in Guguletu, an African township in Cape Town, offered a means by which these poor black South Africans liberated themselves from oppressive systems. Thomas argues that the healing rites, and the folk medicine they involved, reoriented the community's focus away from conditions under apartheid and enlisted active community support that aided in expelling the aggressive and toxic apartheid system. Thomas's ethnographic study underscores the remarkable ability of economically disadvantaged people in South Africa to use their few material resources to create powerful and transformative rituals that helped them endure and overcome inhuman circumstances.

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Linda E. Thomas is a professor of theology and anthropology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the editor of Living Stones in the Household of God: The Legacy and Future of Black Theology.

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Editorial
University of South Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2007
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ISBN 10 
1570037523
ISBN 13 
9781570037528
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9781570033117: Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa (Studies in Comparative Religion)

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ISBN 10:  1570033110 ISBN 13:  9781570033117
Editorial: University of South Carolina Press, 1999
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