ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to explore the Karanga, independent, Apostolic Church of St
Elijah Chikoro Chomweya (School of the Holy Spirit)’s therapeutic system through
examination of the wider historical precincts of Christianization and colonization
in Africa and in our particular context in Zimbabwe. In order to attain relevance
to contemporary religious developments, it also examines the terminology and
historiography of the study of new religious movements, its traits and socio-cultural,
politico-economic and religious motivating factors, which culminated in the dawn
of independent and new religious movements and its propensity towards inter-
denominalization, urbanization, modernization and globalization. The chapter also
tries to penetrate into the new church’s medical views as expressed in terms of causal
explanation, techniques for diagnosis and methods of therapy.
