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Author Engelke, Matthew Eric

Title A problem of presence : beyond Scripture in an African church / Matthew Engelke
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description xiii, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Series The anthropology of Christianity ; 2
Anthropology of Christianity ; 2
Contents Up in smoke: humility, humiliation, and the Christian book -- The early days of Johane Masowe -- The question of leadership: the Friday message after Johane -- Mutemo in three portraits -- Listening for the True Bible: live and direct language, part I -- Singing and the metaphysics of sound: live and direct language, part II -- The substance of healing
Summary Documents how the apostolics' rejection of scripture speaks to long-standing concerns within Christianity about mediation and authority. Situating the Masowe case within a broad comparative framework, this ethnography shows how the apostolics' rejection of textual authority poses a problem of presence
Analysis Zimbabwe - Religious life and culture
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Masowe, Johane, -1973
Masowe, Johane.
Masowe weChishanu Church.
Messianic Judaism.
LC no. 2006023890
ISBN 0520249038 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520249046 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780520249035 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520249042 (paperback: alk. paper)