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Church of the Nazarites

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The role of Africans in the growth and process of Christianity in South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular the book provides an insight into the role of writing and literacy in the church founded by the South African prophet, Isaiah Shembe, in 1910. The book provides a substantial, contextualising introduction which includes discussion of the church's history and its position in contemporary South Africa, and weaves in discussion of the topics of literacy and modernity. The book then moves to the three documents, presented in their language of composition, Zulu and in an English translation. The three 'books', each from Shembe's Nazareth Baptist Church, provide the reader with a fascinating insight into the growth and organisation of one of southern Africa's most influential African Churches, and into the use and interpretation of the Bible by the church's founder, Isaiah Shembe, and by church members. Central to the writings is the complex presence of Shembe, present both through his own words in the first book and, in the second book, through the memory of Meshack Hadebe, a member of the church in the 1920's and 1930's. The extracts in the third book provide a glimpse of the church's hymnal and the unique religious poetry of the hymns, authored by Shembe.

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In Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha , Nkosinathi Sithole explores the hymns of Prophet Isaiah Shembe and the sacred dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha, and offers an emic perspective on the Church which has attracted scholars from different disciplines. Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha posits that in the hymns, Shembe found a powerful medium through which he could voice his concerns as an African in colonial times, while praising and worshipping God. Sithole also refutes claims by some scholars that the sacred dance was a response to colonialism and oppression, showing that in fact the sacred dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha is considered to be a form of worship and is thought to exist on earth and in heaven.

Dance --- Zulu (African people) --- Religious aspects --- Church of the Nazarites. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Shembe, Isaiah, --- Church of the Nazarites --- Hymns. --- Rituals.

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#SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Fertility cults --- Zulu (African people) --- Marriage customs and rites. --- Amazulu (African people) --- Isizulu (African people) --- Kafirs (African people) --- Zulus --- Zunda (African people) --- Ethnology --- Nguni (African people) --- Cults, Fertility --- Cults --- Marriage customs and rites --- Church of the Nazarites. --- amaNazaretha Church --- Bandla lamaNazaretha --- Church of the amaNazaretha --- Holy Church of Nazareth Baptists --- iBandla amaNazaretha --- iBandla lamaNazaretha --- iBandla zamaNazaretha --- Nazareth Baptist Church --- Nazarite Church --- Shembe Church --- Shembe Nazareth Baptist Church --- Zulu Nazareth Baptist Church --- Church of the Nazarites --- ibandla lamaNazaretha --- religious communities --- South Africa --- 1910 --- Isaiah Shembe --- gender issues --- ethnomusicology --- religious songs --- religious dances --- fertility rituals --- history of South Africa --- colonialism --- apartheid