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Churches which emphasise ecstatic possession by the spirit, which foster prophecy and spiritual healing and exorcism have been seen as continuations of African belief and practice. Yet these very features, which are taken as being most African, are in reality the most Christian aspect of such churches. They spring directly from increasingly strong tendencies in world Christianity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They spring in fact either from anti-establishment Christian Pentecostalism, as it developed in Europe and North America, or from evangelical revivalist tendencies within the major mission churches themselves. Few independent church leaders have claimed to be continuing African traditions.

Terence Ranger

Terence Ranger

Terence Ranger

Born: 1929

Died: January 3, 2015 (aged 86)

Bio: Terence Osborn Ranger was a prominent African historian, focusing on the history of Zimbabwe. Part of the post-colonial generation of historians, his work spanned the pre- and post-Independence period in Zimbabwe, from the 1960s to the present.

Known for:

Voices from the rocks (1999)
Are we not also men? (1995)

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