Bulletproof: The Lumpas

As long promised, we're finally bringing back The Bulletproof Project, our series on mass movements that instructed their followers that magic could counteract modern weaponry. Today's entry is one we've been researching for ages: Northern Rhodesia's Lumpa Church, a messianic Christian movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s headed by a woman named Alice Lenshina.

Much has been written about the Lumpas since they suffered greatly at the hands of the Northern Rhodesian military during a...