Characteristics of Zionist Churches
Zionist churches are characterised by the following features:
- Use of faith-healing and revelation through dreams
- "Jordan" baptism, in rivers
- Ritual garments, often mostly white, and prophetic staffs.
- Food taboos, such as not eating pork.
- Some smaller denominations worship in the open air, and practise "wheel" dances—dancing in circles, sometimes to the beat of drums.
- Some denominations accept polygamy.
- Some denominations show syncretic mixing of Christian and traditional African religious beliefs
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