The Healer-Prophet in Afro-Christian Churches

by G.C. Oosthuizen

Apart from the mainline, Pentecostal, and Zionist churches, there are different types of African Independent/Indigenous Churches (AIC). The greater part of the more than four thousand denominations and eight million adherents came into the AIC during the past three decades, mainly from the traditional African religious background.
The important role of the diviner in the traditional society has been replaced by the prophet in the AIC; the prophet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004094687
• ISBN13: 9789004094680
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.8"