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Title: Sceptic members of the Shembe Church listen to testimony from a man claiming to have been healed
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal. Sceptical devotees watch a man claim he was healed by the leader of the church at the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Identifier: islandora:7278

Title: Marking the boundaries of a Shembe or Nazareth Baptist Church homestead
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal. Whitewashed rocks mark the boundaries of a Shembe or Nazareth Baptist Church homestead - the Mthembus - in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
Identifier: islandora:7390

Title: Church leader, Vimbeni Shembe, on a holy pilgrimage
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: KwaZulu-Natal. Church leader Vimbeni Shembe on the pilgrimage to the top of the flat-topped mountain Nhlangakazi after over a 100,000 pilgrims of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe, walked for three days, barefoot, to the holy mountain Nhlangakazi. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Identifier: islandora:7403

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