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Title:Curing What Ails Them: Individual Circumstances and Religious Choice among Zulu Speakers in Durban, South Africa
Author:Rounds, John C.
Year:1982
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:52
Issue:2
Pages:77-89
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:African Independent Churches
migrants
faith healing
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159142
https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1982-052-00-000011
Abstract:Between 1910-1935 the area around Durban experienced a great florescence of religious innovation. While macro-social, factors such as colonial oppression, white racism, relative deprivation, over-population and impoverishment of the 'native reserves', appear to offer plausible explanations, they fail to explain the remarkable variety of the many religious groups which arose. To explain this, one must look at individual converts choosing to join individual religious groups. From this perspective, two religious groups are described and compared. Both arose between 1910-1935 and both are composed predominantly of Zulu-speaking converts. One is a nativist healing centre; the other is a Pentecostal congregation. Besides the many basic similarities between the two, there was one critical difference, namely the different postures taken toward the city. Converts to the nativist centre were mostly migrants, while converts to the Pentecostal congregation were, in the main, immigrants. Ref., French sum.
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