Oosthuizen, G. C.

Professor G.C. Oosthuizen taught at the University of Zululand and was the Director of the Research Unit for New Religions and Independent churches (NERMIC).

Afro-Christian Religion and Healing in Southern Africa

1989 0-88946-282-8
Seeks an understanding of one result of the syncretism of Southern African Christianity, namely, the increasing evidence among African Christians of ancestor veneration, belief in possession by alien spirits, dance-induced trancing, and witch beliefs. ". . . the significance of this volume lies . . . in the fact that South African anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and theologians could talk with rather than at each other about pastoral theology and healing in the work of independent churches. . . . the volume will be used in graduate and research studies by students of anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, and religion." - Choice

Afro-Christian Religion at the Grassroots in South Africa

1991 0-88946-226-7
This work contains the research efforts of genuine empirical research by colleagues from various parts of the African continent, especially in Southern Africa. The close association that all have with the African Independent/Indigenous churches enables them to give a clearer picture of what happens at the grassroots level of this vast movement in the Southern Africa context.

Empirical Studies of African Independent/ Indigenous Churches

1992 0-7734-9588-6
Essays on how the African Independent/Indigenous Churches experience and interpret their religion, their relationship to the Black experience, and the effectiveness of religious expression with regard to their needs. Topics include oral history in the Nazaretha church, the Iviyo LoFakazi BakaKristu and other renewal movements, theological issues in African Independent Churches, healing, exorcism, and involvement and creative development.

The Story of Isaiah Shembe: Volume Three The Continuing Story of the Sun and the Moon

2002 0-7734-7335-1
The third in a new series on the Oral History of the ibandla lamaNazaretha, the Nazareth Baptist Church of South Africa, the largest African Independent Church among the Zulu-speaking people of Southern Africa.

The Story of Isaiah Shembe: Volume One History and Traditions Centered on Ekuphakameni and Mount Nhlangankazi

1996 0-7734-8773-5
A new series on the Oral History of the Ibandla lama Nazaretha, the Nazareth Baptist Church of South Africa, the largest African Independent Church among the Zulu-speaking people of Southern Africa.

The Story of Isaiah Shembe: Volume Two Early Regional Traditions of the Acts of the Nazarites

1998 0-7734-8196-6
A new series on the Oral History of the ibandla lamaNazaretha, the Nazareth Baptist Church of South Africa, the largest African Independent Church among the Zulu-speaking people of Southern Africa. Oral histories from the following districts: Umbumbulu, Umzinto, Emzumbe, Bhacha, Ndwedwe, Maphumulo, Natal Midlands, Msinga, Mtunzini, Empangeni, Melmoth, Nongoma, Hlabisa, Ladysmith, Vryheid and Paulpietersburg, Swaziland, and Umbombo