Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, and the Church-Sect Typology

Abstract

*Presently a doctoral candidate in hte Department of Social Relations, Harvard University. [1. Editorial note: The reader's attention is called to an informative article on African religious movements by Professor Harold W. Turner of the University of Leicester, formerly in Nigeria. The article "A Typology of African Religious Movements" was expected to be published in Holland in 1967 in Vol. I, No. 1 of the Journal of Religion in Africa. pp. 1-34.] 2. Since 1964, the autlhor has been conducting field research on the Jamaa. This has entailed participant observation and interview in the Katanga and Kasai regions of the Congo as well as in the capital city of Kinshasa. It has also involved interviewing certain priest-leaders of the movement now in Belgium. The primary materials which have been gathered include an extensive body of letters written by Jamaa priests, recordings of Jamaa meetings and songs as well as the protocols of interviews with members, friends and critics of the movements and note on personal observations which the author himself has made. 3. Jo in V. Taylor, The Primal Vision: Christian Presence Amid African Religion (London: SCM Press, 1963). 4. Taylor, op. cit., p. 192.