TY - BOOK ID - 6383283 TI - The healer-prophet in Afro-Christian churches PY - 1992 VL - 3 SN - 9004094687 9004319840 9789004094680 PB - Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Nativistic movements KW - Healers KW - Healing KW - Religious aspects. KW - Medicine, Traditional. KW - Religion and Medicine. KW - 299.6*1 KW - 291.62 KW - -Healing KW - -Nativistic movements KW - -Ethnic revivals KW - Messianic cults KW - Prophetistic movements KW - Sects, Nativistic KW - Cults KW - Ethnology KW - Nationalism KW - Religion KW - Messianism KW - Curing (Medicine) KW - Therapeutics KW - Curanderos KW - Faith healers KW - Mental healers KW - Psychic healers KW - Spiritual healers KW - Traditional healers KW - Mental healing KW - Spiritual healing KW - Medicine and Religion KW - Parish Nursing KW - Indigenous Medicine KW - Primitive Medicine KW - Traditional Medicine KW - Ethnomedicine KW - Folk Medicine KW - Folk Remedies KW - Home Remedies KW - Medicine, Folk KW - Medicine, Indigenous KW - Medicine, Primitive KW - Folk Remedy KW - Home Remedy KW - Remedies, Folk KW - Remedies, Home KW - Remedy, Folk KW - Remedy, Home KW - Materia Medica KW - Nostrums KW - Pharmacognosy KW - Plants, Medicinal KW - Ethnopharmacology KW - Nieuwe Afrikaanse godsdiensten: Kimbangisme; messiaanse bewegingen KW - Mensen met bovennatuurlijke kracht: wonderdoeners; tovenaars; geestenbezweerders; kwakzalvers; genezers KW - Religious aspects KW - South Africa. KW - South Africa KW - Africa, South KW - Republic of South Africa KW - Union of South Africa KW - Traditional Pulse Diagnosis KW - -Nieuwe Afrikaanse godsdiensten: Kimbangisme; messiaanse bewegingen KW - 291.62 Mensen met bovennatuurlijke kracht: wonderdoeners; tovenaars; geestenbezweerders; kwakzalvers; genezers KW - 299.6*1 Nieuwe Afrikaanse godsdiensten: Kimbangisme; messiaanse bewegingen KW - -291.62 Mensen met bovennatuurlijke kracht: wonderdoeners; tovenaars; geestenbezweerders; kwakzalvers; genezers KW - Ethnic revivals KW - Medicine, Traditional KW - Religion and Medicine KW - Religiosity Coping KW - Spiritual Coping KW - Coping, Religiosity KW - Coping, Spiritual KW - Religiosity Copings KW - Traditional Medicine Practitioners KW - religion KW - religious life KW - religious customs KW - healing KW - prophets KW - the Bible KW - Christianity KW - spirituality KW - marriage and religion KW - witchcraft KW - purification KW - rituals KW - baptism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6383283 AB - 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 traditional African religious background. The important role of the diviner in the traditional society has been replaced by the prophet in the AIC; the prophet understands the worldview of his/her people, especially the cultural diseases. In some churches the office of prophet cum diviner is represented by one person. The AIC movement is the most dynamic church movement in many parts of Africa, especially Southern Africa. The consistent growth of these churches can largely be accounted for by the healing procedures they use, which ar highlighted in this study. Dr. Oosthuizen approaches healing from various angles, as sickness is not only determined by physical and psychological factors, but also by disturbed human relationships and socio-political and economic tensions. ER -