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Ukuthwasa is a Southern African culture-bound syndrome [1] [2] associated with the calling and the initiation process to become a sangoma, a type of traditional healer. In the cultural context of traditional healers in Southern Africa , the journey of ukuthwasa (or intwaso ) involves a spiritual process marked by rituals, teachings, and ...
Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal. Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.They fulfil different social and political roles in the community like divination, healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft and narrating the ...
Amafufunyana is an unspecified "culture-bound" syndrome named by the traditional healers of the Xhosa people that relates to claims of demonic possession due to members of the Xhosa people exhibiting aberrant behavior and psychological concerns. [1]
Andrew Mark Henry is an American scholar of religion who hosts the YouTube channel Religion for Breakfast, which provides videos explaining religion from an academic perspective. Henry started the channel in 2014 while studying for a PhD in religious studies at Boston University , which he completed in 2020.
The United African Apostolic Church is a South African church. Its headquarters is situated in Ha-Mavhunga, a village in the Nzhelele Valley in the province of Limpopo.It is a Pentecostal church that has developed from Pentecostal missionary origins with African beliefs to a synchretic African initiated church.
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People who perform rituals in these caves include herbalists, diviners and traditional healers who all aim to treat disease and reduce misfortune. They also perform rituals to protect families, homesteads, cattle, and property. [7] Rituals performed in these sacred locations are regarded as important for the holistic well being of an individual.