J P Kiernan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 101573 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J P Kiernan |
| PRENOMES | J P |
| SOBRENOME | Kiernan |
| ASSINATURA | KIERNAN J P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Images of rejection in the construction of morality
Cet article analyse les relations qui existent entre la morale et la marginalite au sein des eglises Zionistes en Afrique du sud. Les multiples dimensions de cette marginalite sont d'abord retracees avant d'en preciser la signification. Quant a la moralite zioniste, elle se pose moins comme un systeme de contraintes ou de normes que comme une aire de contestation ou deux adversaires mystiques, Satan et Le Sorcier se livrent combat. Les zionistes …
The Production and Management of Therapeutic Power in Zionist Churches within a Zulu City
The herder and the rustler
Wear 'n' tear and repair
One of the most conspicuous aspects of religious experience in Zulu Zionist Churches is the bright colours that are worn and otherwise employed. Surprisingly, this highly visible feature has attracted only passing attention from those who have studied these Churches; certainly no serious effort has been made to uncover the ritual significance of their colour symbolism. Against the background of anthropological studies of the therapeutic deploymen…
The Canticles of Zion
THE CANTICLES OF ZION: SONG AS WORD AND ACTION IN ZULU ZIONIST DISCOURSE BY J. P. KIERNAN (University of Natal, South Africa) Anyone who has witnessed the progress of a Zionist meeting, or has even overheard it in passing by, will know that singing is a prominent feature of the service. The frequency with which the congregation has recourse to song throughout the meeting is ample testimony to its importance as an inescapable ingredient of Zionist…
The Other Side of the Coin
Ownership and requisition
1987). Ownership and requisition: The limits of land tenure in a community of ZULU farmers. African Studies: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 117-128
The social stuff of revelation
Opening ParagraphAnthropologists are beginning to investigate the sociological dimension of dreams, at least of those purporting to be channels of religious revelation. Two recent examples of this tendency are Charsley (1973) and Curley (1983), each of whom researched dream phenomena in an African independent church. The sociological approach is a firm rejection of earlier and some current attempts to extract patterns of culture and personality f…
The 'Problem of Evil' in the Context of Ancestral Intervention in the Affairs of the Living in Africa
A consideration of ancestral intervention with reference to 'good' and 'evil' simply confirms the essential insolubility of the problem of evil. If this moral framework is transmuted into sociological categories, the activity of different types of ancestor can be analysed in terms of a distinction between constituting and allocating agents. Not only does this make more sense of what ancestors do, but it emphasises the complementary character of t…
Themes and Trends in the Study of Black Religion in Southern Africa
AFRICAN RELIGIOUS RESEARCH THEMES AND TRENDS IN THE STUDY OF BLACK RELIGION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA BY J. P. KIERNAN (University of Natal, South Africa) BINSBERGEN, W. M. J. and BUIJTENHUIS, R. (eds.) Religious innovation in modern African society (= African Perspectives 1976/2). Leiden: Afrika Studiecentrum 1976. BLACKING, John. 'Political and musical freedom in the hymns of some Black South African churches', in L. Holy and M. Stuchlik (eds.) The st…
Worldview in perspective
1981). Worldview in perspective: Towards the reclamation of a disused concept. African Studies: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 3-11
Zionist Communion
The Korsten Basketmakers. A Study of the Masowe Apostles, an Indigenous African Religious Movement
The Weapons of Zion
Zulu Zionists form small-scale curing communities 1 in which reserves of spiritual power, called umoya, are ritually built up and expended to offset the effects of human and mystical agents which afflict the individual. Umoya, meaning air, breath or spirit, suffuses a whole range of powers which Zionists fashion and transmit in the course of the healing rite. Since it is not my intention to deal here with the complete repertoire of Zionist powers…
Worship and Freedom
Saltwater and Ashes
Saltwater and Ashes
Poor and Puritan; an attempt to view Zionism as a collective response to urban poverty
Public Transport and Private Risk
The behavior of commuters in the industrial centers of Africa is a neglected topic of urban anthropology. Black commuters in the large permanent settlements created by industrialization in South Africa face greater uncertainties in traveling by train than elsewhere. By the time the author had completed research into Zionist groups in KwaMashu, the railway line linking the township to the metropolis of Durban had yielded two serious accidents in a…
Bishops and Prophets in a Black City
Zulu Zion and Some Swazi Zionists
Bengt Sundkler's-Bantu Prophets in South Africa (1948, second ed. 1961) has become widely known as a pioneering work on the life and ideology of Independent African Churches. After him, a large num
African Apostles
Community of the Saved
A seminal study of the African Assembly of God in East London, a church founded in 1950 by the evangelist Nicholas B.H. Bhengu
Prophet and Preacher
What precisely happens in the small group is still something of a sociological mystery. In this article, I look at the working of small religious groups of Zulu Zionists in an urban area, devoting particular attention to patterns of leadership. Leadership operates as a partnership between two sociological types, the Prophet, who allocates specific endowments and privations to individuals, and the Preacher who constitutes the group and, in constit…
The Work of Zion
Opening ParagraphAfrican Zionist ritual is for the patient. The ambiguity is intended. Not only is Zionist ritual a healing rite but it makes demands on the patience of the participant. In the South African township of Kwa Mashu where African Zionists meet in small groups of from six to thirty people called Ibandla, i.e. a band, the meeting which takes place in one small room normally lasts for four or five of the hottest hours of the day. This i…
Zulu Zion and Some Swazi Zionists
Bengt Sundkler's-Bantu Prophets in South Africa (1948, second ed. 1961) has become widely known as a pioneering work on the life and ideology of Independent African Churches. After him, a large num
Where zionists draw the line
The Other Side of the Coin
African Apostles
Poor and Puritan; an attempt to view Zionism as a collective response to urban poverty
Bishops and Prophets in a Black City
The social stuff of revelation
Opening ParagraphAnthropologists are beginning to investigate the sociological dimension of dreams, at least of those purporting to be channels of religious revelation. Two recent examples of this tendency are Charsley (1973) and Curley (1983), each of whom researched dream phenomena in an African independent church. The sociological approach is a firm rejection of earlier and some current attempts to extract patterns of culture and personality f…
The Work of Zion
Opening ParagraphAfrican Zionist ritual is for the patient. The ambiguity is intended. Not only is Zionist ritual a healing rite but it makes demands on the patience of the participant. In the South African township of Kwa Mashu where African Zionists meet in small groups of from six to thirty people called Ibandla, i.e. a band, the meeting which takes place in one small room normally lasts for four or five of the hottest hours of the day. This i…
The herder and the rustler
The 'Problem of Evil' in the Context of Ancestral Intervention in the Affairs of the Living in Africa
A consideration of ancestral intervention with reference to 'good' and 'evil' simply confirms the essential insolubility of the problem of evil. If this moral framework is transmuted into sociological categories, the activity of different types of ancestor can be analysed in terms of a distinction between constituting and allocating agents. Not only does this make more sense of what ancestors do, but it emphasises the complementary character of t…
Prophet and Preacher
What precisely happens in the small group is still something of a sociological mystery. In this article, I look at the working of small religious groups of Zulu Zionists in an urban area, devoting particular attention to patterns of leadership. Leadership operates as a partnership between two sociological types, the Prophet, who allocates specific endowments and privations to individuals, and the Preacher who constitutes the group and, in constit…
Wear 'n' tear and repair
One of the most conspicuous aspects of religious experience in Zulu Zionist Churches is the bright colours that are worn and otherwise employed. Surprisingly, this highly visible feature has attracted only passing attention from those who have studied these Churches; certainly no serious effort has been made to uncover the ritual significance of their colour symbolism. Against the background of anthropological studies of the therapeutic deploymen…
The Canticles of Zion
THE CANTICLES OF ZION: SONG AS WORD AND ACTION IN ZULU ZIONIST DISCOURSE BY J. P. KIERNAN (University of Natal, South Africa) Anyone who has witnessed the progress of a Zionist meeting, or has even overheard it in passing by, will know that singing is a prominent feature of the service. The frequency with which the congregation has recourse to song throughout the meeting is ample testimony to its importance as an inescapable ingredient of Zionist…
Community of the Saved
A seminal study of the African Assembly of God in East London, a church founded in 1950 by the evangelist Nicholas B.H. Bhengu
Worldview in perspective
1981). Worldview in perspective: Towards the reclamation of a disused concept. African Studies: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 3-11
The Weapons of Zion
Zulu Zionists form small-scale curing communities 1 in which reserves of spiritual power, called umoya, are ritually built up and expended to offset the effects of human and mystical agents which afflict the individual. Umoya, meaning air, breath or spirit, suffuses a whole range of powers which Zionists fashion and transmit in the course of the healing rite. Since it is not my intention to deal here with the complete repertoire of Zionist powers…
Old wine in new wineskins
Where zionists draw the line
Old wine in new wineskins
Prophet and Preacher
What precisely happens in the small group is still something of a sociological mystery. In this article, I look at the working of small religious groups of Zulu Zionists in an urban area, devoting particular attention to patterns of leadership. Leadership operates as a partnership between two sociological types, the Prophet, who allocates specific endowments and privations to individuals, and the Preacher who constitutes the group and, in constit…
The Work of Zion
Opening ParagraphAfrican Zionist ritual is for the patient. The ambiguity is intended. Not only is Zionist ritual a healing rite but it makes demands on the patience of the participant. In the South African township of Kwa Mashu where African Zionists meet in small groups of from six to thirty people called Ibandla, i.e. a band, the meeting which takes place in one small room normally lasts for four or five of the hottest hours of the day. This i…
Poor and Puritan; an attempt to view Zionism as a collective response to urban poverty
Public Transport and Private Risk
The behavior of commuters in the industrial centers of Africa is a neglected topic of urban anthropology. Black commuters in the large permanent settlements created by industrialization in South Africa face greater uncertainties in traveling by train than elsewhere. By the time the author had completed research into Zionist groups in KwaMashu, the railway line linking the township to the metropolis of Durban had yielded two serious accidents in a…
Bishops and Prophets in a Black City
Zulu Zion and Some Swazi Zionists
Bengt Sundkler's-Bantu Prophets in South Africa (1948, second ed. 1961) has become widely known as a pioneering work on the life and ideology of Independent African Churches. After him, a large num
African Apostles
Community of the Saved
A seminal study of the African Assembly of God in East London, a church founded in 1950 by the evangelist Nicholas B.H. Bhengu
Saltwater and Ashes
Saltwater and Ashes
The Weapons of Zion
Zulu Zionists form small-scale curing communities 1 in which reserves of spiritual power, called umoya, are ritually built up and expended to offset the effects of human and mystical agents which afflict the individual. Umoya, meaning air, breath or spirit, suffuses a whole range of powers which Zionists fashion and transmit in the course of the healing rite. Since it is not my intention to deal here with the complete repertoire of Zionist powers…
Worship and Freedom
Zionist Communion
The Korsten Basketmakers. A Study of the Masowe Apostles, an Indigenous African Religious Movement
Themes and Trends in the Study of Black Religion in Southern Africa
AFRICAN RELIGIOUS RESEARCH THEMES AND TRENDS IN THE STUDY OF BLACK RELIGION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA BY J. P. KIERNAN (University of Natal, South Africa) BINSBERGEN, W. M. J. and BUIJTENHUIS, R. (eds.) Religious innovation in modern African society (= African Perspectives 1976/2). Leiden: Afrika Studiecentrum 1976. BLACKING, John. 'Political and musical freedom in the hymns of some Black South African churches', in L. Holy and M. Stuchlik (eds.) The st…
Worldview in perspective
1981). Worldview in perspective: Towards the reclamation of a disused concept. African Studies: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 3-11
The 'Problem of Evil' in the Context of Ancestral Intervention in the Affairs of the Living in Africa
A consideration of ancestral intervention with reference to 'good' and 'evil' simply confirms the essential insolubility of the problem of evil. If this moral framework is transmuted into sociological categories, the activity of different types of ancestor can be analysed in terms of a distinction between constituting and allocating agents. Not only does this make more sense of what ancestors do, but it emphasises the complementary character of t…
The social stuff of revelation
Opening ParagraphAnthropologists are beginning to investigate the sociological dimension of dreams, at least of those purporting to be channels of religious revelation. Two recent examples of this tendency are Charsley (1973) and Curley (1983), each of whom researched dream phenomena in an African independent church. The sociological approach is a firm rejection of earlier and some current attempts to extract patterns of culture and personality f…
Ownership and requisition
1987). Ownership and requisition: The limits of land tenure in a community of ZULU farmers. African Studies: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 117-128
The Other Side of the Coin
The Canticles of Zion
THE CANTICLES OF ZION: SONG AS WORD AND ACTION IN ZULU ZIONIST DISCOURSE BY J. P. KIERNAN (University of Natal, South Africa) Anyone who has witnessed the progress of a Zionist meeting, or has even overheard it in passing by, will know that singing is a prominent feature of the service. The frequency with which the congregation has recourse to song throughout the meeting is ample testimony to its importance as an inescapable ingredient of Zionist…
Wear 'n' tear and repair
One of the most conspicuous aspects of religious experience in Zulu Zionist Churches is the bright colours that are worn and otherwise employed. Surprisingly, this highly visible feature has attracted only passing attention from those who have studied these Churches; certainly no serious effort has been made to uncover the ritual significance of their colour symbolism. Against the background of anthropological studies of the therapeutic deploymen…
The herder and the rustler
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