Isaiah Shembe's hymns and the sacred dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha / / by Nkosinathi Sithole.
In Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha , Nkosinathi Sithole explores the hymns of Prophet Isaiah Shembe and the sacred dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha, and offers an emic perspective on the Church which has attracted scholars from different disciplines. Isaiah Shembe’s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of Religion in Africa
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 pages). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 Beyond African Nationalism: Isaiah Shembe and His Hymns
- 2 The Bible, the Hymns, and Shembe’s Sense of Self
- 3 The Sacred Dance and the Question of Resistance
- 4 Virginity, Sexual Abstinence and the Maidens’ Rituals
- 5 Male Circumcision, Marriage and the Notion of (In)Completeness
- 6 Dress Codes and the Poetics of Performance in the Sacred Dance
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.