Religious Innovation in Africa: Collected Essays on New Religious Movements

Record summary

Harold W. Turner’s Religious Innovation in Africa collects studies of African Independent and prophetic movements, many involving healing, visions, revelation and forms of inspired leadership. It offers identifiable comparative material for mediumship and altered states in twentieth-century Africa, particularly where churches reinterpret older spirit practices. The volume is concerned with religious change rather than proof of psi. Individual chapters differ in method and location, so a researcher should inspect the contents before treating the book as evidence for any specific movement, healer or reported event.