The Crisis Model for Managing Change in African Christianity:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" The Crisis Model for Managing Change in African Christianity: "
Sibusiso Masondo

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067005
Doc. No	:	LA110634
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341262‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Sibusiso Masondo
Title & Author	:	The Crisis Model for Managing Change in African Christianity: [Article] : The Story of St John’s Apostolic Church\ Sibusiso Masondo
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	42/2
Page No	:	157–174
Abstract	:	St John’s Apostolic Faith Mission, founded by Christinah Nku (also known as Mme Christinah) and all its splinter groups can be theorized as presenting a crisis model for managing change. These churches provide their members with a well worked out path of inclusion through baptism and related rituals, as well as, alleviation of crisis through an assortment of healing, cleansing and deliverance rituals. There is also a strong element of maintaining a person’s healing through an assortment of rituals of celebration and ideological reinforcement. They do this through a process of resource mobilization from both Christianity and African Religion to set up a religion that adequately responds to both the existential and spiritual needs of their members. St John’s Apostolic Faith Mission, founded by Christinah Nku (also known as Mme Christinah) and all its splinter groups can be theorized as presenting a crisis model for managing change. These churches provide their members with a well worked out path of inclusion through baptism and related rituals, as well as, alleviation of crisis through an assortment of healing, cleansing and deliverance rituals. There is also a strong element of maintaining a person’s healing through an assortment of rituals of celebration and ideological reinforcement. They do this through a process of resource mobilization from both Christianity and African Religion to set up a religion that adequately responds to both the existential and spiritual needs of their members.
Descriptor	:	baptism
Descriptor	:	Christianity
Descriptor	:	divination
Descriptor	:	healing
Descriptor	:	prophecy
Descriptor	:	ritual
Descriptor	:	transformation
Descriptor	:	witchcraft
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341262‬