ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that land or space is a necessary base for territoriality, temporary or permanent, and that territoriality is one of several expressions of ethnicity or separate identity. The religious group used for illustration is the Swazi Christian Church (SCC) in Zion of South Africa, a Swazi association of churches formed in 1942, whose members have, until recent years, been predominantly semi-literate and from rural areas. The relationship between identity and territoriality, explored elsewhere in this volume in a variety of regional and cultural contexts, suggests a number of traits in common with the SCC in Zion. The SCC in Zion churches experience land and modes of territoriality at several levels. Superimposed on land partition along Swazi private and commercial lines, there is also partition of land according to church influence, 'mission' and indigenous church spheres of operation. Land or space as the primary basis for territoriality, temporary or permanent, or in intangible forms such as 'noise'.
