Under the Canopy
Subtitle: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa (Studies in Comparative Religion)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781570033117
Subjects: Anthropology; Black studies; Christian rites & ceremonies; Racism & racial discrimination; Social Science; Independent churches; Race And Ethnic Relations; Spiritual healing; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Republic of South Africa; Christian Rituals & Practice - General; Comparative Religion; Customs & Traditions; Church And Social Problems; South Africa; Christianity - Theology - General; Christian Theology - General; Discrimination & Racism; Race relations; Christianity - Ritual & Practice
First sentence: I met Reverend and Mama Xaba on 16 June 1991 at an ecumenical worship service commemorating the death of several black children gunned down by South African police in Soweto in 1976.
Description: "In Under the Canopy Linda Elaine Thomas argues that the healing rites performed at St. John's Apostolic Faith Mission Church, located in Guguletu, an African township in Cape Town, was one means by which poor black South Africans liberated themselves from oppressive systems."--BOOK JACKET.

"This study underscores the remarkable ability of economically disadvantaged people in South Africa to use their few material resources to create powerful and transformative rituals that helped them endure and transcend the inhuman circumstances of their lives."--BOOK JACKET.