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THE NAZARETHA CHURCH IN SOUTH AFRICA - Isaiah Shembe's Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha. By Nkosinathi Sithole. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2016. Pp. viii + 212. $128.00, hardcover (ISBN 978090043172222).

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Isaiah Shembe's Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha. By Nkosinathi Sithole. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2016. Pp. viii + 212. $128.00, hardcover (ISBN 978090043172222).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2018

JOEL CABRITA
JOEL CABRITA*
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University of Cambridge
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South Africareligionartsmusic
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The Journal of African History , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 142 - 145
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3 Cabrita, J., Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church (New York, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Jarvis, L., ‘A chief is a chief by the women: the Nazaretha Church, gender and traditional authority in Mtuzini, South Africa, 1900–1948’, The Journal of African History, 56:1 (2015)Google Scholar; Tishken, J., Isaiah Shembe's Prophetic Uhlanga (New York, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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6 But not all: see B. Mthethwa, ‘The hymns of the Nazaretha: composed by Isaiah and Galilee Shembe’ (incomplete doctoral dissertation, University of Natal, SA, 1996); Vilakazi, A. with Mthethwa, B. and Mpanza, M., Shembe: The Revitalization of Zulu Society (Johannesburg, 1986)Google Scholar.

7 Orsi, R., Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them (Princeton, NJ, 2005)Google Scholar.