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Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa [Studi
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- Book Title
- Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in Sou
- ISBN
- 9781570037528
- EAN
- 9781570037528
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Series
- Studies in Comparative Religion Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Religion, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Under the Canopy : Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Subject
- Comparative Religion, Ethnic & Tribal, Customs & Traditions
- Number of Pages
- 200 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
ISBN-10
1570037523
ISBN-13
9781570037528
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64212702
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Under the Canopy : Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa
Subject
Comparative Religion, Ethnic & Tribal, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Series
Studies in Comparative Religion Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
Through this book readers gain a great deal of insight into religious developments in South Africa and the connection between these developments and continuing political realities. - Journal of the American Academy of Religion ""Thomas's compassionate and scrupulous attention to place and circumstance is the distinctive factor in this highly self-reflective ethnographic work."" - Journal of Religion
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
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 poor black South Africans liberated themselves from oppressive systems., 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., 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. Linda E. 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. Drawing from interviews conducted with members of St. John's, Thomas shows how the independent church fostered a community capable of drawing from the surrounding disorder a purposeful, orderly, and unified outlook at both personal and communal levels. The ritual action performed by this community contested the articulation, distribution, and control of knowledge by a white elite and developed new cultural meanings specifically for the marginalized. Under the blue and white canopy of St. John's, Thomas found healing rituals to be expressions of protest through which oppressed people were able to transform their world. Under the Canopy includes eight photographs from the author's field research with the members of St. John's.
LC Classification Number
BT732.5.T473 2007
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