The healer-prophet in Afro-Christian churches /

The healer-prophet in Afro-Christian churches /

Apart from the mainline, Pentecostal, and Zionist churches, there are different types of African Independent/Indigenous Churches (AIC). The greater part of the more than four thousand denominations and eight million adherents came into the AIC during the past three decades, mainly from the tradition...

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Main Author: Oosthuizen, G. C.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1992.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 3.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.

Subjects:

Nativistic movements > South Africa.
Healers > South Africa.
Healing > South Africa > Religious aspects.
South Africa > Religious life and customs.

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Call Number: BR1450 .O56 1992

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • BACKGROUND TO THIS THEME
  • THE CALL OF THE AIC HEALER
  • HEALING METHODS OF THE PROPHET
  • TRADITIONAL AFRICAN EXPLANATION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES
  • THE TASK OF THE PROPHET CONCERNING DEMONS, DEMON POSSESSION AND EVIL SPIRITS
  • "BAPTISM" AS A PURIFICATION RITUAL IN THE AIC
  • DIVINER/PROPHET PARALLEL
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN MISSION.