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African Independent Churches       Search catalogue 294896902

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
onafhankelijke Afrikaanse kerken

UFA
healing churches

DAT
Also covers publications on Aladura, the Kimbanguist Church, the Apostolic Church of John Maranke, Zionist churches, and messianism indexed before 2006.

IND
1

MIS
Although there is considerable evidence that the first AICs in various parts of Africa were offshoots of German missions, usually the Methodist preacher Nehemiah Tile is credited with founding the first AIC in 1883. From the 1890s onwards African-initiated religious movements, usually called 'separatist' movements because they separated themselves from missionary churches, are recorded throughout Africa. ... The proliferation of African independent churches is to be explained by the fact that they are essentially house-church movements with a strong emphasis on healing, prophetic gifts, and lay participation (uit: Encyclopedia of African and African-American religions, p. 237/238)

PPN
294896902

UDC
289 289(-201)

MRF
279.285

BT1
Church

NT1
African Orthodox Church
Aladura
Apostolic Church of John Maranke
Jamaa
Kimbanguist Church
Lumpa Church
Zionist churches

UF
African Indigenous Churches
African Initiated Churches
African Instituted Churches
AIC

RT
faith healing

BSO
06.02.01 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND DENOMINATIONS

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