Ritual Healing in the Zion Christian Church in South Africa

Exploring Indigenous African medicine and faith healing within the Zion Christian Church, this book demonstrates the role of these healing practices from music and prophecy to implemented social restrictions.The Zion Christian Church is one of the largest churches in the African continent with footprints in other parts of the world.The author argues that these theories are important for understanding the healing practices within the broader context of the African Independent Churches.The theories of ritual healing, symbol healing, and holistic healing are brought together in exploring the healing practices in the Zion Christian Church.This book demonstrates that the ritual healing process does not end with healing but extends to the practices of spiritual protection and shielding of patients within African cosmology. Exploring these theories, Mookgo Solomon Kgatle brings us to an understanding of worship beyond liturgical practices toward therapeutic implications.Similarly, practices o