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Title:The Social Stuff of Revelation: Pattern and Purpose in Zionist Dreams and Visions
Author:Kiernan, James P.
Year:1985
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:55
Issue:3
Pages:304-318
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:dreams
African Independent Churches
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160582
https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1985-055-00-000020
Abstract:In applying a sociological approach to the examination of recounted dreams in urban Zulu Zionist churches in South Africa, the author's purpose is twofold: to consider further implications of the purposive use of dream narrative, and, more importantly, to focus on content and its declared source, independently of purpose, and to relate it directly to social organization. Drawing upon his fieldwork among Zulu Zionists, the author argues that the contents of recounted dreams and visions combine to reveal aspects of Zionist organization and that recounted dreams and visions are tactically deployed in different ways. - Graph., notes, ref., sum. in French, tab.
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