Moving Spirit
by Paul Weinberg
Photographs: Paul Weinberg
Publisher: Double Storey, SA and Mets and Shilt
128 pages
Year: 2006
ISBN: 978-1770131002
Price: 60 €
For the past years he has been photographing religious rituals and spiritual practice around his city, Durban and other parts of the country. These include Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Islamic faiths, rituals linked to ancestral veneration and the New Age movement. In some instances, the spiritual practice is largely traditional, as in the Hindu and African ceremonies. In others, they have been influenced by outside forces as in the Zion Christian movement - a creolisation of African tradition and Christianity. Along the way he encountered unexpected commonalities. Trance states cross over African, Hindu and Islamic traditions. There are also small sects that have been washed to South African shores bringing with them their culture and religion. An example is the Zanzibari community, descended from a group of slaves, who, about 150 years ago, were shipwrecked and landed in Durban. Another, the Lemba who consider themselves African Jews, drifted down from Zimbabwe a few centuries ago, and are believed to have descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel. Paul Weinberg describes the way he went about the project. “My approach has been to allow the camera to narrate the journey of spirituality, following a diversity of events and rituals that in some way reflects the Moving Spirit, running through my country and southern Africa. This is no attempt to be an A-Z on religions in the region but rather a personal journey documenting the spiritual practices that I have chosen to connect with. Our country in recent years has been through a process of national healing, if you like, with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Hidden atrocities were brought into the open, to reveal the truth, to heal, forgive and move on. I, too, with or without my camera, am part of a country trying to heal. In this journey I join millions of South Africans continuously on a pilgrimage beyond politics and platitudes….in search of the transcendent spirit.” For Weinberg the journey has been intensely personal and rewarding. “My journey has taken me to the practitioners of spirituality rather than religion as such. I have observed how colonial and African, ancient and modern, eastern and western, first and third worlds, gaze and interact with each other. At the highest level of spiritual practice I have seen there are no divisions of colour, gender, class or form of worship – there is simply a common language and an open road. Travelling in pursuit of the spirit, I have been humbled by the many doors that have opened for me. I have been privileged to walk up holy mountains, to kneel before God in places of worship, to be blessed by many priests, to pray and be prayed for. I have held the talking stick and the traditional staff that represents ‘healing and not killing’. I have been immersed in all that is held sacred by a diversity of people and practices. For this, I am immensely grateful.”
> see also Paul Weinberg's fine art prints
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Moving Spirit
by Paul Weinberg
Photographs: Paul Weinberg
Publisher: Double Storey, SA and Mets and Shilt
128 pages
Year: 2006
ISBN: 978-1770131002
Price: 60 €
For the past years he has been photographing religious rituals and spiritual practice around his city, Durban and other parts of the country. These include Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Islamic faiths, rituals linked to ancestral veneration and the New Age movement. In some instances, the spiritual practice is largely traditional, as in the Hindu and African ceremonies. In others, they have been influenced by outside forces as in the Zion Christian movement - a creolisation of African tradition and Christianity. Along the way he encountered unexpected commonalities. Trance states cross over African, Hindu and Islamic traditions. There are also small sects that have been washed to South African shores bringing with them their culture and religion. An example is the Zanzibari community, descended from a group of slaves, who, about 150 years ago, were shipwrecked and landed in Durban. Another, the Lemba who consider themselves African Jews, drifted down from Zimbabwe a few centuries ago, and are believed to have descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel. Paul Weinberg describes the way he went about the project. “My approach has been to allow the camera to narrate the journey of spirituality, following a diversity of events and rituals that in some way reflects the Moving Spirit, running through my country and southern Africa. This is no attempt to be an A-Z on religions in the region but rather a personal journey documenting the spiritual practices that I have chosen to connect with. Our country in recent years has been through a process of national healing, if you like, with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Hidden atrocities were brought into the open, to reveal the truth, to heal, forgive and move on. I, too, with or without my camera, am part of a country trying to heal. In this journey I join millions of South Africans continuously on a pilgrimage beyond politics and platitudes….in search of the transcendent spirit.” For Weinberg the journey has been intensely personal and rewarding. “My journey has taken me to the practitioners of spirituality rather than religion as such. I have observed how colonial and African, ancient and modern, eastern and western, first and third worlds, gaze and interact with each other. At the highest level of spiritual practice I have seen there are no divisions of colour, gender, class or form of worship – there is simply a common language and an open road. Travelling in pursuit of the spirit, I have been humbled by the many doors that have opened for me. I have been privileged to walk up holy mountains, to kneel before God in places of worship, to be blessed by many priests, to pray and be prayed for. I have held the talking stick and the traditional staff that represents ‘healing and not killing’. I have been immersed in all that is held sacred by a diversity of people and practices. For this, I am immensely grateful.”
> see also Paul Weinberg's fine art prints
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Once We Were Hunters
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 25 -
In Search of the San
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 49 -
Travelling Light
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Euro 50 -
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Traces and Tracks - a thrity-year journey with the San (signed)
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by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
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by Michael Christopher Brown
Euro 125 -
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by Fazal Sheikh
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Moving Spirit
by Paul Weinberg
Photographs: Paul Weinberg
Publisher: Double Storey, SA and Mets and Shilt
128 pages
Year: 2006
ISBN: 978-1770131002
Price: 60 €
For the past years he has been photographing religious rituals and spiritual practice around his city, Durban and other parts of the country. These include Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Islamic faiths, rituals linked to ancestral veneration and the New Age movement. In some instances, the spiritual practice is largely traditional, as in the Hindu and African ceremonies. In others, they have been influenced by outside forces as in the Zion Christian movement - a creolisation of African tradition and Christianity. Along the way he encountered unexpected commonalities. Trance states cross over African, Hindu and Islamic traditions. There are also small sects that have been washed to South African shores bringing with them their culture and religion. An example is the Zanzibari community, descended from a group of slaves, who, about 150 years ago, were shipwrecked and landed in Durban. Another, the Lemba who consider themselves African Jews, drifted down from Zimbabwe a few centuries ago, and are believed to have descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel. Paul Weinberg describes the way he went about the project. “My approach has been to allow the camera to narrate the journey of spirituality, following a diversity of events and rituals that in some way reflects the Moving Spirit, running through my country and southern Africa. This is no attempt to be an A-Z on religions in the region but rather a personal journey documenting the spiritual practices that I have chosen to connect with. Our country in recent years has been through a process of national healing, if you like, with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Hidden atrocities were brought into the open, to reveal the truth, to heal, forgive and move on. I, too, with or without my camera, am part of a country trying to heal. In this journey I join millions of South Africans continuously on a pilgrimage beyond politics and platitudes….in search of the transcendent spirit.” For Weinberg the journey has been intensely personal and rewarding. “My journey has taken me to the practitioners of spirituality rather than religion as such. I have observed how colonial and African, ancient and modern, eastern and western, first and third worlds, gaze and interact with each other. At the highest level of spiritual practice I have seen there are no divisions of colour, gender, class or form of worship – there is simply a common language and an open road. Travelling in pursuit of the spirit, I have been humbled by the many doors that have opened for me. I have been privileged to walk up holy mountains, to kneel before God in places of worship, to be blessed by many priests, to pray and be prayed for. I have held the talking stick and the traditional staff that represents ‘healing and not killing’. I have been immersed in all that is held sacred by a diversity of people and practices. For this, I am immensely grateful.”
> see also Paul Weinberg's fine art prints
More books by Paul Weinberg
-
Once We Were Hunters
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 25 -
In Search of the San
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 49 -
Travelling Light
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 50 -
In Search of the San (review copy)
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 49 19.60 -
Traces and Tracks - a thrity-year journey with the San (signed)
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 25
more books tagged »South African« | >> see all
-
Joburg: Points of View (signed)
by Guy Tillim
sold out -
The Borderlands
by Jo Ractliffe
sold out -
Holy Bible (first edition - last copy)
by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
sold out -
Jo'burg (signed)
by Guy Tillim
Euro 195 -
Congo Democratic
by Guy Tillim
sold out -
Holy Bible (first edition, signed)
by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
sold out
more books tagged »Africa« | >> see all
-
Petros Village
by Guy Tillim
Euro 132 -
The Afronauts (last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
African Canvas
by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Euro 85 -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66 -
Libyan Sugar (last copies)
by Michael Christopher Brown
Euro 125 -
A Sense of Common Ground
by Fazal Sheikh
Euro 69
more books tagged »religion« | >> see all
-
Devil’s Promenade (signed)
by Antone Dolezal + Lara Shipley
Euro 50 -
Places of Worship
by Andreas Duscha
sold out -
Imitation of Christ
by William E. Jones
Euro 30 -
Glaube-Liebe-Hoffnung? (German edition)
by Abbas
Euro 49 -
8630 Mariazell
by Erwin Polanc
Euro 35 -
Dusk
by Axel Hoedt
sold out
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-
From YOKOSUKA
by Miyako Ishiuchi
sold out -
Trail (signed)
by Ikuru Kuwajima
Euro 42 -
The Bolshoi
by Sasha Gusov
sold out -
Die Sahraouis
by Christine de Grancy
sold out -
Manplan Two
by Patrick Ward
sold out -
Mühit (signed)
by Ilkin Huseynov
sold out
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