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Title: | Poor and puritan: an attempt to view Zionism as a collective response to urban poverty |
Author: | Kiernan, J.P. |
Year: | 1977 |
Periodical: | African Studies |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 31-41 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | African Independent Churches Urbanization and Migration Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020187708707483 |
Abstract: | Zionists are a highly visible minority in the Black population of KwaMushu township on the outskirts of Durban. While Zionism took root in certain country districts at the turn of the century, it emerged quite separately as an urban phenomenon which attracted Black migrant workers in Johannesburg. It is not unlikely that urban and rural Zionism are different in that they may fulfil essentially different social functions. It is only with urban Zionists that the author is dealing. He sees them as a symbol of urban living, which view is based on fieldwork in KwaMashu from 1968 to 1970. Zionism has been regarded as an organized Black raction to White political dominance. The author views Zionism as a social response to a particular range of poverty. Bibliogr., notes, tab. |