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African Zionism (also "amaZioni" from Zulu "people of Zion") is a religious movement with 15–18 million members throughout Southern Africa, making it the largest religious movement in the region. It is a combination of Christianity and African traditional religion .
Samuel Mohilever (1824–1898), born in the Russian Empire (Belarus) Religious Zionist, a founder of the Hovevei Zion; Max Nordau (1849–1923), born in the Austrian Empire (Hungary), involved in the foundation of the Zionist Organisation (later World Zionist Organisation) Erna Patak (1871–1955), Austrian social worker and women's activist
Zionism [a] is an ethnocultural nationalist [b] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people through the colonization of Palestine, [2] an area roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism, [3] and of central importance in Jewish history.
For many, that equates to the right of the Jewish people to have their own state and self-determination in an ancestral homeland after centuries of oppression and ostracism in much of the world.
The Old Cornerstone Apostolic Church in Zion of South Africa, under Archbishop Mawethu Anthwell, had its beliefs grow out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth religious missions in Southern Africa. In particular the churches owe their origins to the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of John Alexander Dowie , based in Zion, Illinois , in the ...
It initially considered loctions other than Palestine (e.g. in Africa) and did not foresee migration by many Western Jews to the new homeland. [5] Nathan Birnbaum, a Jew from Vienna, was the original father of Political Zionism, yet ever since he defected away from his own movement, Theodor Herzl has become known as the face of modern Zionism ...
Pages in category "Zionism in Africa" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Biafra Zionist Front
According to Dafna Hirsch of the Open University of Israel, writing in 2009, many Zionists supported the concept of Jews as a race, often believing it "offered scientific 'proof' of the ethno-nationalist myth of common descent", [z] while others used it to emphasise diversity and hierarchy within the Jewish people. [2] The variation of Zionist ...