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Wear ‘n’ tear and repair: the colour coding of mystical mending in Zulu Zionist Churches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

J. P. Kiernan
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Résumé

L'un des aspects les plus remarquables de l'expression religieuse des églises sionistes zouloues est l'éclat des coloris des vêtements ou employés par ailleurs. II est surprenant que ceux qui ont étudié ces eglises n'aient porté leur attention qu'en passant sur cette particularité hautement visible; en tout cas aucun effort sérieux n'a été entrepris pour découvrir la signification rituelle du symbolisme de leurs couleurs. Avec pour arrière-plan les études anthropologiques sur le deploiement therapeutique de couleurs symboles en Afrique, et à la lumière de mes propres recherches chez les zoulous sionistes, cet article a pour dessein de montrer que les couleurs choisies par les sionistes parmi celles significatives pour les africains, expriment comment ceux-ci se situent vis-à-vis de leur monde social et tracent graphiquement l'avancement de leur façon d'y réagir en guérison rituelle.

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Africa , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 26 - 39
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Copyright © International African Institute 1991

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