Abstract
[...]how are these institutions themselves affected by the change in political authority and its accompanying efforts to institutionalize the elimination of racial hierarchies and sexism? Chapter 5 explores how these church women empower themselves as minorities in the larger society of equipping themselves with "models and strategies" gathered through negotiations between the ZCC schools and their lived experiences outside the church. Because of its support of the apartheid regime, the church created the perception of its members as enemies of the larger anti-apartheid movement and the masses of black South Africans who fought the oppressive system. [...]by identifying the Church as a dynamic social space which reflects historical continuity with established African traditions, as well as transformations in social relations brought on by changing social structures, the book makes an invaluable contribution to academic scholarship on Anthropology of religion.