- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (25 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226548198
- ISBN-13: 978-0226548197
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm
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With close to one million members, the Church of the Nazarites ("ibandla lamaNazaretha") is one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa. Founded in 1910 by Isaiah Shembe, it offers South Africans - particularly disadvantaged black women and girls - a way to remake and reconnect to ancient sacred traditions disrupted by colonialism and apartheid. Ethnomusicologist Carol Muller explores the everyday lives of Nazarite women through their religious songs and dances, dream narratives and fertility rituals, which come to life both musically and visually on CD-ROM. Against the backdrop of South Africa's turbulent history, Muller shows how Shembe's ideas of female ritual purity developed as a response to a regime and culture that pushed all things associated with women, cultural expression and Africanness to the margins. Carol Muller also includes details of her own journey, as a young, white South African woman, to the "other" side of a divided society.
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In this book, I examine the constitution of ritual and expressive culture as a feminized and sacred practice in one of South Africa's largest and oldest indigenous religious groups-ibandla lamaNazaretha (the Church of the Nazarites, 1910-1997), more commonly known as the followers of Shembe. Read the first page
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In this book, I examine the constitution of ritual and expressive culture as a feminized and sacred practice in one of South Africa's largest and oldest indigenous religious groups-ibandla lamaNazaretha (the Church of the Nazarites, 1910-1997), more commonly known as the followers of Shembe. Read the first page
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