Crossroads of Culture Christianity, Ancestral Spiritualism, and the Search for Wellness in Northern Malawi.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindland, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : MZUNI Press, 2020.
Colección:Mzuni books ; no. 24.
Temas:
Christianity and other religions > African.
Christianity and other religions > Malawi.
Healing > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Traditional medicine > Malawi.
Christianisme > Relations > Religions africaines.
Christianisme > Relations > Malawi.
Guérison > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Africans > Religion.
Christianity.
Interfaith relations.
Traditional medicine.
Malawi.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright page
  • Title page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Note on Naming and Translation
  • Map 1: Peoples of the Lake Nyasa basin, ca. 1875
  • Map 2: Livingstonia Mission stations
  • Map 3: Embangweni (Loudon) Station, 2000
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Research Context
  • A History of Encounters
  • Choosing a Field Site
  • Embangweni Station
  • The Embangweni Ecclesiastical Context
  • The Research Framework
  • The Broader Research Context: Crisis and Challenge
  • Conclusion
  • PART ONE. History and Theory
  • CHAPTER ONE
  • Missiology and Anthropology in the Study of Christian Missions in Africa
  • Missiological Perspectives on Conversion and Syncretism
  • Anthropological Perspectives on Syncretism and Conversion
  • Anthropological Theories of Conversion: Rationalization, Cosmology, and Colonialism
  • Further Anthropological Theories of Conversion: Power, Pragmatism, and the Contradictions of Colonization
  • Anthropological Theories of Syncretism: As Structure and Meaning
  • Modeling and Schematization: Towards Developing a Cognitive Anthropology of Syncretism and Conversion
  • Cultural Models and Analogic Schematization
  • Structures of Conjuncture and Disjuncture
  • Of Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness
  • Durable Schemas and Challenging Hegemonies
  • CHAPTER TWO
  • Historical Theologies of Bodily Resurrection and the Emergence of a Dualist Paradigm in Modern Western Culture
  • Introduction
  • A Christian of Death and Resurrection
  • Metaphors of Decay and Fertility in an Emergent Christian Theology of Bodily Resurrection
  • Developments in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Theology: The Soul's Desire for the Resurrected Body
  • Body/Soul Hierarchies and the Emergence of a Dualist Paradigm
  • Cartesian Dualism and the Further Intellectualization of Soul
  • Protestantism and the Reformed Tradition
  • Presbyterianism
  • The Emergence of Biomedicine: Dualism and the Scientific Ethic of the Body
  • CHAPTER THREE
  • History, Religion, and Medicine in Northern Nyasaland
  • A Series of Migrations
  • Regional Religious Cults and Movements
  • Tumbuka Religion: Early Missionary Accounts
  • Tumbuka Religion: Malawian Christian Accounts
  • Ngoni Religion
  • The Tumbuka-Ngoni Religious Encounter
  • The Arrival of the Livingstonia Mission
  • CHAPTER FOUR
  • The Establishment, Growth, and Segmentation of the Livingstonia Mission
  • Tribal"" Responses to Missionary Activity
  • From Hora to Lwasozi: A History of Embangweni
  • Embangweni and the Mission Biomedical Project
  • The Mission's Educational Expansion
  • Religious Competition and Independency
  • CHAPTER FIVE
  • Missionary and Tumbuka Models of Personhood and Being: Conjunctions and Disjunctions Between Western Dualist and African Monist Schemas
  • Introduction

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