Ritual Healing in the Zion Christian Church in South Africa
A Decolonial Perspective
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350552876
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages180 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 0 bw illus 700
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Short description:
This books explores the role of Indigenous African medicine in the healing practices of the Zion Christian Church in the South African context.
MoreLong description:
This book signifies a distinct separation of the ritual healing process in the Zion Christian Church from traditional African medicine while also attempting to synthesize contemporary medical approaches with indigenous knowledge systems.
The Zion Christian Church is recognized for its distinctive amalgamation of religious activities, which include faith healing, prophecy, and significant pilgrimages, particularly the Easter pilgrimage to Moria. Despite the church's emphasis on the Christian identity within its faith healing practices, some observers interpret various rituals and beliefs as syncretic. Consequently, these readings have led to allegations that the church integrates aspects of African traditional medicine and witchcraft into its rituals.
This book utilizes the church as a case study to examine healing faith, practices, and rituals thereof within the larger framework and context of African Independent Churches. This theology is used to help place the faith of patients and the importance of God's role as healer ahead of the healing rituals. Its unique theme-driven, interconnected chapters contain discussions around various practices, encompassing purification and protection rituals as well as therapeutic worship. Consequently, scholars in religious studies, theology, anthropology, and history will find this book an important resource in understanding the role of healing rituals among African Independent Churches.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Zion Christian church: an overview
3. Purification rituals in the Zion Christian Church
4. Protection rituals in Zion Christian Church
5. Therapeutic worship in the Zion Christian Church
6. Therapeutic Prophecy in Zion Christian Church
7. Social restrictions, taboos, and holiness in Zion Christian Church
8. The theology of ritual faith healing in the Zion Christian Church
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