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| Title: | Discontinuity and the Discourse of Conversion |
| Author: | Engelke, Matthew |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 1-2 |
| Pages: | 82-109 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | religious conversion Christianity African Independent Churches Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1581482 |
| Abstract: | This paper focuses on the conversion narrative of a man in the Johane Masowe weChishanu Church, an apostolic church in Zimbabwe. Taking up recent discussions within anthropology on Pentecostal and charismatic churches, the author shows how apostolics talk about conversion as a distinct break with 'African custom'. It is argued that anthropologists of religion need to take such narratives of discontinuity seriously because they allow us to understand better the dynamics of religious change. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |
