In a time of prophets : healing, gender, and politics in the Nazareth Baptist Church of South Africa, c.1870-1939
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Nazareth Baptist Church (NBC) took root during the Zulu Zion, a surge in the growth of faith healing churches throughout South Africa (but especially among Zulu speakers) in the early twentieth century. It has since become one of South Africa's oldest and largest faith healing churches. Drawing upon oral traditions, oral history interviews, and government archives, this study traces the history of the NBC from the birth of its first prophet (Isaiah Shembe) through an act of violence in 1939 that secured the succession of the second prophet. It argues for the salience of understanding ideas of healing in the making, un-making, and maintenance of communities in South Africa in the early twentieth century. In so doing, it also shows how the community transformed from a group coalescing around women's grievances into an institution with property and resources as men gained new interest and authority in the church.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Jarvis, Lauren Virginia |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History |
| Primary advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Primary advisor | Roberts, Richard, active 1899 |
| Thesis advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Roberts, Richard, active 1899 |
| Thesis advisor | Campbell, James |
| Advisor | Campbell, James |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Lauren Virginia Jarvis. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Lauren Virginia Jarvis
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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