By Dr Müller Retief
Years after the top of Apartheid South Africa is still racially polarized and socially divided. during this context pilgrimage and vacationing rituals serve to aid those that usually locate themselves on the backside finish of the social ladder to make experience in their international. This booklet describes a South Africa that's made of a couple of diversified fragmented worlds. the focal point is at the Zion Christian Church, one of many greatest spiritual activities in southern Africa, and a very good instance of indigenized African Christianity. Pilgrimage performs a huge position in reintegrating a few of these fragmented worlds into anything impending wholeness. This publication tells the tale of the way the long-lasting ritual of pilgrimage is reworking African faith, besides the lives of normal South Africans.
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