The Story of Isaiah Shembe: Early Regional Traditions of the Acts of the Nazarites (Sacred History and Traditions of the Amanazoretha) [Hardcover]

Irving Hexham (Editor), G. C. Oosthuizen (Editor), Hans-Jurgen Becken (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1999 | ISBN-10: 0773481966 | ISBN-13: 978-0773481961

The second in a series, this text explores the oral history of the ibandia lamaNazaretha, the Nazareth Baptist Church of South Africa, the largest African independent church among the Zulu-speaking people of Southern Africa.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 317 pages
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr (February 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0773481966
• ISBN-13: 978-0773481961
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,136,704 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).