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- Title
THE JAMAA MOVEMENT IN THE KATANGA AND KASAI REGIONS OF THE CONGO.
- Authors
Craemer, Willy De
- Abstract
In the course of investigating a comparatively recent religious movement in the Congo, known as the Jamaa, the author has been led to raise several questions about the relevance of the conceptual categories for dealing with religious movements available in the social sciences today. As a necessary prelude to systematic inquiry into these questions, the author proposes to start with a resume of the major sociological characteristics of the Jamaa. As a first approximation, we may say that the Jamaa is a charismatic religious movement that developed inside the Catholic Church in the Congo toward the end of the colonial era. It emerged in the mid-1950 in the southern part of Katanga province of Congo in the socio-economic setting of Union Miniere, the internationally known copper mining company, and its prophet-like leader was Father Placide Tempels, a Franciscan missionary of Belgium-Flemish origin. The author provisionally calls the Jamaa an "acculturative reform movement." By the use of this term, the author wish to emphasize both the cross-cultural orientation of the Jamaa and the changes in attitudes, ritualistic practices, vocabulary and structures in the Catholic Church that it already implies and that it will crystallize if it survives and is totally integrated into the larger Church.
- Subjects
CONGO (Democratic Republic); JAMAA Movement; RELIGIOUS movements; CATHOLIC Church; BANTU religion; RELIGION &; sociology
- Publication
Review of Religious Research, 1968, Vol 10, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0034-673X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3510668