(London: Oxford University Press, 1976) 0198227078. 8vo; blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 337, incl. index; plates; map; text figures. Dustwrapper slightly sunned on spine panel, a little rubbed and edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; some fox spots to endpapers and edges; faint trace of pale highlighting to text of one chapter. Good condition. "Bengt Sundkler's Bantu Prophets in South Africa (1948, second edition 1961) has become widely known as a pioneering work on the life and ideology of Independent African Churches. After three decades, Professor Sundkler has returned to the same Zulu and Swazi churches in which he began his research in 1940. This time he interprets them from a different point of view. He has concentrated on the history and the leading personalities of some of these churches, including that of the famous Isaiah Shembe. The difference in time and perspective between the earlier book and this new volume leads to challenging questions concerning the South African church movement as a whole. The present study is built on rich finds of original source material." .

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Bookseller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12797
Title: Zulu Zion and some Swazi Zionists
Author: Sundkler, Bengt
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198227078
ISBN 13: 9780198227076
Publisher: (London: Oxford University Press, 1976) 0198227078
Place of Publication: London & New York
This edition first published: 1976
Keywords: Indigenous religions. ZCC. Shembe. Anthropology
Bookseller catalogs: Anthropology;

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