Publisher's Synopsis
A series on the Oral History of the ibandla IamaNazaretha, the Nazareth Baptist Church of South Africa, by far the largest African Independent Church among the Zulu-speaking people of Southern Africa.;Volume four contains a systematic presentation of the teachings and practices of the movement. It contradicts all that one normally finds written about the amaNazarites in particular and African religions in general. It presents the beliefs and practices of a dynamic African religious movement that has adapted to the modern world and produced its own body of written texts.
