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A Church of strangers The Universal Church of the Kingdomof God in South Africa(Pb)
I Van Wyk(OUT OF PRINT NEW)
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a churchof Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branchesand attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike otherPentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationshipswith God be devoid of `emotions', that socialisation between members be kept toa minimum and that charity and fellowship are `useless' in materialising God'sblessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money toGod for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. Whileoutsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows thatthey are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and areinformed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. Asan ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers freshinsights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since theearly 1990s.
