ABSTRACT
Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the bottom end of the social ladder to make sense of their world. This book describes a South Africa that is made up of a number of different fragmented worlds. The focus is on the Zion Christian Church, one of the largest religious movements in southern Africa, and a good example of indigenized African Christianity. Pilgrimage plays an important role in reintegrating some of those fragmented worlds into something approaching wholeness. This book tells the story of how the enduring ritual of pilgrimage is transforming African religion, along with the lives of ordinary South Africans.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Introduction
chapter |20 pages
Introduction and Background
part |69 pages
The Local Church Context
chapter |24 pages
ZCC Worship Observed: A World within Worlds
chapter |16 pages
The ZCC Pulpit: A Rhetorical Focal Point in the Local Church
chapter |28 pages
The Prophet's Word: Charismatic Discourse at the Grassroots
part |47 pages
Pilgrimage to Moria: A Sacred Center in a Rural Periphery
chapter |26 pages
A “New Year's” Festival at the ZCC Headquarters
chapter |20 pages
Zion City Revisited
part |37 pages
Outward-bound Pilgrimage: The ZCC Bishop in the Center
chapter |16 pages
The Traveling Church
chapter |20 pages
A Border-crossing Pilgrimage
part |19 pages
Conclusion