The Legion of Christ's Witnesses: change within the Anglican diocese of Zululand, 1948-1984

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Title:	The Legion of Christ's Witnesses: change within the Anglican diocese of Zululand, 1948-1984
Author:	Shorten, Richard J.
Year:	1987
Issue:	15
Pages:	171
Language:	English
Series:	Communications
City of publisher:	Cape Town
Publisher:	Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town
ISBN:	0799211273
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	Christianity religious movements Anglican Church Zulu
Abstract:	The Legion of Christ's Witnesses is a predominantly Zulu-speaking renewal movement in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. The major portion of its members lives in the Diocese of Zululand. There is a strong emphasis on the gifts and powers of the Holy Spirit, on evangelism and holiness, while sacramental worship and elements of Anglo-Catholicism are incorporated. Lay participation is encouraged and practised, although clergy and members of the religious order, the Community of the Holy Name, perform the dominant role. This study has five aims: 1. to trace the history of the Legion locating it in its ecclesiastical and socioeconomic context; 2. to describe its characteristic features; 3. to examine the reasons why the Legion came into existence and the factors which assisted its growth and development; 4. to trace the sources of the Legion's features and to examine the question of why certain elements were adopted and emphasized and others were not; 5. to understand and analyse the Legion in terms of J.S. Cumpsty's model of religious change in sociocultural disturbance.