Name: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of god in South Africa: A Church of Strangers: 47 (The International African Library, Series Number 47) (en Inglés)
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Author: Ilana Van Wyk
ISBN: 9781107057241

portada The Universal Church of the Kingdom of god in South Africa: A Church of Strangers: 47 (The International African Library, Series Number 47) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Ilana Van Wyk

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

424

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781107057241

Categorías

África
Historia de africa

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of god in South Africa: A Church of Strangers: 47 (The International African Library, Series Number 47) (en Inglés)

Ilana Van Wyk (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Dura

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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid of 'emotions', that socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity and fellowship are 'useless' in materialising God's blessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early 1990s.