Distinctly African Christians: situating his people Christian Church within social transformation
This paper looks at the ways in which His People Christian Church and its congregation have incorporated into their services and activities a variety of performative, graphic and thematic reference points that closely follow contemporary attitudes in the promotion of new identities in South Africa....
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Halle/Saale
Max Planck Inst. for Social Anthropology
2007
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| In: |
Working papers (97)
Year: 2007 |
| Series/Journal: | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology working papers
97 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Republic (Continent)
/ Christianity
/ Church
/ Social change
/ History 1990-2005
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| Summary: | This paper looks at the ways in which His People Christian Church and its congregation have incorporated into their services and activities a variety of performative, graphic and thematic reference points that closely follow contemporary attitudes in the promotion of new identities in South Africa. Such incorporation speaks of a revalorisation of the local that balances more international institutional links, while confirming underlying ties with the trajectory of the nation state in the post-apartheid era. The discussion first considers the history and underlying organisation of His People Church before turning attention on the Sunday services of its main Johannesburg venue. What emerges from the subsequent analysis of this ‘charismatic Christian’ community is a conscious and unconscious dissolution between the sacred and the secular that affirms the sense of contemporaneity at His People Church. |
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| Item Description: | Parallel als Buch-Ausg. erschienen |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (Text, 239 kB) |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25673/104709 URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-41854 |
