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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa

Van Wyk, Ilana

Hardcover

Series: International African Library, Book 47

African HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1107057248
ISBN13: 9781107057241
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 12 2014
Pages: 299
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid of emotions, that socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity and fellowship are useless in materialising God's blessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early 1990s.

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