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Bonding In Worship A Ritual Lens On Social Capital In African Independent Churches In South Africa 1st Edition Ignatius Swart Cas Wepener Marcel Barnard Gerrie Ter Haar

Name: Bonding In Worship A Ritual Lens On Social Capital In African Independent Churches In South Africa 1st Edition Ignatius Swart Cas Wepener Marcel Barnard Gerrie Ter Haar
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Bonding In Worship A Ritual Lens On Social Capital In African Independent Churches In South Africa 1st Edition Ignatius Swart Cas Wepener Marcel Barnard Gerrie Ter Haar

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Bonding In Worship A Ritual Lens On Social Capital In African Independent Churches In South Africa 1st Edition Ignatius Swart Cas Wepener Marcel Barnard Gerrie Ter Haar instant download after payment.

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.2 MB

Pages: 333

Author: Ignatius Swart; Cas Wepener; Marcel Barnard; Gerrie ter Haar

ISBN: 9789042938335, 9042938331

Language: English

Year: 2019

Edition: 1

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Bonding In Worship A Ritual Lens On Social Capital In African Independent Churches In South Africa 1st Edition Ignatius Swart Cas Wepener Marcel Barnard Gerrie Ter Haar by Ignatius Swart; Cas Wepener; Marcel Barnard; Gerrie Ter Haar 9789042938335, 9042938331 instant download after payment.

In Sub-Saharan Africa Christianity is experiencing unprecedented growth and many people worship on a regular basis. Simultaneously, many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa experience challenges such as poverty and inequality. Given this reality and these challenges, a group of international scholars investigated the ritual practices of one of the fastest growing traditions, namely African Independent Churches, over a period of more than four years. The research team set out to explore the role of religious rituals in social capital formation and social development at community level in an African Independent Church in South Africa. This book is the final, comprehensive and synthesising product in which the international and interdisciplinary team of scholars from theology, religion and development present their findings. The book is structured into three parts that reflects its theoretical, empirical and evaluative dimensions. In part I, theoretical perspectives are offered on the main conceptual apparatus of the book and the authors' own understanding of the nexus between the different concepts. In part II, the theoretical arguments of the book are further worked out by means of eight explorations comprising of qualitative field work research in the religious milieus of African Independent worshippers in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, South Africa. In part III, a final set of chapters, by reflecting on the case studies in part II, offer wider appreciations and applications of the role religious ritual in social capital formation. This includes reflections on the African notion of ubuntu and the challenges that the ritual lens offers to policy makers in South African society, but also African society and the global South more generally speaking when seeking answers to the problem of development.