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Title: | Religion and Transformation in South Africa? Institutional and Discursive Change in a Charismatic Congregation |
Author: | Ganiel, Gladys |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 63 |
Pages: | 1-22 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | African Independent Churches Religion and Witchcraft Urbanization and Migration Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/219637 |
Abstract: | A number of Christian churches in South Africa have proclaimed their commitment to reconciliation and the elimination of unjust inequalities. This study analyses how these commitments are being worked out at the microlevel of a congregation. Using an ethnographic approach, the author explores how a charismatic congregation in Cape Town, the Jubilee Community Church, has changed from being nearly all-white to being more inclusive. She explores links between individual, cognitive identity change and institutional change; and considers the discourses which justify change, including their emphasis on 'unity in diversity' and 'restitution'. She outlines the limitations of change, including the persistence of 'racialized' leadership structures and the discursive privileging of unity over restitution. This allows an understanding of how microlevel changes take place and an exploration of their potentialities and limitations, and the application of these insights to other contexts. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |