The Scriptures of the Amanazaretha of Ekuphakameni: Selected Writings of the Zulu Prophets Isaiah and Londa Shembe [Paperback]

Irving Hexham (Editor), Londa Shembe (Translator), Hans-Jurgen Becken (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1994

Considerable controversy has been generated about the exact nature of the movements known as African Independent Churches. Are they, as some writers suggest, simply African adaptations of Christianity, or are they new religions in their own right? To date, most of the people arguing about these issues have lacked access to the sacred scriptures of the movements they claim to study. This translation presents for the first time in English the major scriptures of the best-known of all African Independent Churches, the amaNazaretha of South Africa. The translation of the Zulu prophet Isaiah Shembe's work was made by his grandson Londa Shembe, who succeeded his father as the 'third Shembe' and prophet of the church at the holy city of EKuphaKameni. Now, the key scriptures of the amaNazaretha of EKuphaKameni are available in English.

Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Univ of Calgary Pr (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1895176336
• ISBN-13: 978-1895176339
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,370,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Irving Hexham is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and adjunct professor of World Christianity at Liverpool Hope University. He has published twenty-seven academic books, including The Concise Dictionary of Religion, Understanding Cults and New Religions, and Religion and Economic Thought, plus eighty major academic articles and chapters in books, numerous popular articles, and book reviews. Recently he completed a report for the United Nations' refugee agency on religious conflict in Africa and another for the Canadian Government's Department of Canadian Heritage on Religious Publications in Canada. He is listed in Who's Who in Canada and various scholarly directories. In 2008, he was honored at the historic Humboldt University in Berlin with a Festschrift, Border Crossings: Explorations of an Interdisciplinary Historian (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag).