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Title: | Social and Religious Change in Southern Africa: Historicizing Christian Independency: The Southern African Pentecostal Movement, c. 1908-60 |
Author: | Maxwell, David |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 243-264 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | Baptist Church History and Exploration Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/183548 |
Abstract: | Early studies of Zionist-type independency in southern Africa were historically weak. Missiologists and sociologists ignored the question of origins, preferring instead to consider issues of syncretism, authenticity and cultural resilience. By adopting an international and regional perspective, this article provides an account of the historical origins and early evolution of Pentecostalism in southern Africa. It focuses on the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM), founded in 1908. The evolution of the AFM from religious movement to institutional church, and its relations with 'spirit type' independency in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) are analysed, contrasting the sympathetic response from the South African State with the frosty reception in Southern Rhodesia. Notes, ref., sum. |