SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Cabrita, Joel (2014) Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The International African Library (No. 46))

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Becker, Felicitas, Cabrita, Joel and Rodet, Marie, eds. (2018) Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa. Athens, USA: Ohio University Press.

Book Chapters

Haustein, Jörg (2018) 'Provincializing Representation: East African Islam in the German Colonial Press.' In: Becker, Felicitas, Cabrita, Joel and Rodet, Marie, (eds.), Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, pp. 70-92.

Cabrita, Joel (2012) 'Isaiah Shembe.' In: Akyeampong, Emmanuel K. and Gates, Henry Louis Jr., (eds.), The Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 363-365.

Journal Article

Cabrita, Joel (2012) 'Patriot and Prophet: John Dube's 1936 Biography of the South African Churchman Isaiah Shembe.' Journal of Southern African Studies, 38 (3). pp. 1-18.

Cabrita, Joel (2010) 'Politics and Preaching: Chiefly Converts to the South African Nazaretha Church, Obedient Subjects and Sermon Performance.' Journal of African History, 51 (1). pp. 21-40.

Cabrita, Joel (2010) 'Texts, Authority and Community in the South African Ibandla lamaNazaretha (‘Church of the Nazaretha.' Journal of Religion in Africa, 40 (1). pp. 60-95.

Cabrita, Joel (2009) 'Isaiah Shembe’s Theological Nationalism, 1920-1935.' Journal of Southern African Studies, 35 (3). pp. 609-625.

Cabrita, Joel (2005) 'Women, Hunger and the Eucharist.' Concilium: International Journal for Theology, 41.

Book Reviews

Cabrita, Joel (2012) 'Review of Jennifer Wenzel, “Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond”.' Novo Religio: Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 15 (4). pp. 120-122.

Cabrita, Joel (2012) 'Review of Paris, Peter J. ed., 'Religion and Poverty: Pan-African Perspectives'.' Journal of Religion in Africa, 42 (1). pp. 79-80.

Cabrita, Joel (2010) 'Review of Angel Mendez, “The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist".' Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 78 (3). pp. 824-827.

Cabrita, Joel (2008) 'Review of Edwin Ardener, “The Voice of Prophecy".' Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 27 (3). pp. 83-86.