The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa

Informationen zum Autor Ilana van Wyk is a researcher at the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town! South Africa. Klappentext This book shows how the UCKG utilizes rituals that are locally meaningful and are informed by local ideas about human bodies! agency and ontological balance. Zusammenfassung 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Christian warriors and the spiritual warfare; 3. On the frontlines; 4. Women of God! love and marriage; 5. The leaking nature of things; 6. Gossiping demons! strong words and lies; 7. Profit prophets and God's money; 8. Family demons and the blessed life; 9. Conclusion.

Klappentext
This book shows how the UCKG utilizes rituals that are locally meaningful and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance.

Zusammenfassung
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. 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.

Inhalt
1. Introduction; 2. Christian warriors and the spiritual warfare; 3. On the frontlines; 4. Women of God, love and marriage; 5. The leaking nature of things; 6. Gossiping demons, strong words and lies; 7. Profit prophets and God's money; 8. Family demons and the blessed life; 9. Conclusion.

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