Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa (Studies in Comparative Religion) - Softcover

Linda E. Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570037523 ISBN 13: 9781570037528

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2007

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda E. Thomas is a professor of theology and anthropology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the editor of Living Stones in the Household of God: The Legacy and Future of Black Theology.

Review:

"Thomas's compassionate and scrupulous attention to place and circumstance is the distinctive factor in this highly self-reflective ethnographic work." -- Journal of Religion

"Readers gain a great deal of insight into religious developments in South Africa and the connection to continuing political realities." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"Under the Canopy is the next major detailed publication to enrich the understanding (and the bibliography) of South African indigenous churches, one that will become a standard work." -- Missionalia

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1570037523
• ISBN 13: 9781570037528
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208