Holiness and taboo in the Zion Christian Church
Taboo is a Polynesian word, which literally means something marked out as forbidden. The concept of taboo is closely linked with the concept mania. Mana is a mysterious kind of supernatural power, a potential energy which people believe to be in and behing all men/women and things. This mana makes...
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University of the Free State
1998-06-01
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| Series: | Acta Theologica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/6033 |
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| Summary: | Taboo is a Polynesian word, which literally means something marked out as forbidden. The concept of taboo is closely linked with the concept mania. Mana is a mysterious kind of supernatural power, a potential energy which people believe to be in and behing all men/women and things. This mana makes a thing, a human being or an animal that which they are. Everything can have mana, but if a thing is big and strong, or when a man/woman has exceptional talents and when something or someone is powerful or dangerous, then it is believed that it or he/she has much mana. Mana is like an electric charge.
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| ISSN: | 1015-8758 2309-9089 |