- Balokole
Balokole is an
Africa n fundamentalistChristian reform movement that started in the 1930s. The Balokole arose within theEast Africa n Revival Movement which sought to renew theProtestant churces inUganda ,Kenya ,Tanzania ,Rwanda andBurundi . Despite its theological roots in the Western revival movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Balokole evolved as an indigenous African movement. The term "Balokole" can be translated as "the saved ones" or "the chosen".The Balokole movement criticized established hierarchies within the
Church of Uganda and questioned prevaliling amorality or double standards. The Balokole formed egalitarian brotherhoods, followed puritanical rules, publicly confessed their sins and professed their experience of conversion, which they understood as a radical break with their former sinful selves.cite book | author=Behrend, Heike | title=Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits | publisher=Ohio University Press, Athens | year=1999 | id=ISBN 0-8214-1311-2]References
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