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Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
Jamaa-beweging

IND
1

MIS
Jamaa, 'family group' in Swahili, is the name of a religious movement in DRC. It appeared first in 1953 in a workers' settlement near the town of Kolwezi in the mining region of Katanga. Among the striking featues of the Jamaa is the fact that it goes back to an 'encounter' (as they say) between a group of Africans and a European, the Belgian Franciscan missionary Placide Tempels. Three traits were characteristic for the Jamaa as a movement. (a) It was conceived as renewal and as an intensification of Christian life within the Catholic mission church. (b) As a rule only married couples could be members (exceptions being made for widowed Catholics, priests, and a few nuns and female social workers. (c) Until the seventies the movement had no formal organization and it lacked an ethnic basis. zie ook www2.fmg.uva.nl/lpca/aps/vol5/jamaaintro.html

PPN
294918248

UDC
289Jamaa

MRF
279.285Jamaa

BT1
African Independent Churches

UF
Jamaa movement

BSO
06.02.01 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND DENOMINATIONS

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