Cargando…
Crossroads of Culture : Christianity, Ancestral Spiritualism, and the Search for Wellness in Northern Malawi /
Combining history, ethnography, and culture theory, this book explores how residents in northwestern Malawi have responded over time to the early missionary assertion that local religious and healing practices were incompatible with Christianity and western medicine. It details how local agents, in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
|
| Colección: | Mzuni books ;
no. 24. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- part one. History and theory. Missiology and anthropology in the study of Christian missions in Africa
- Historical theologies of bodily resurrection and the emergence of a dualist paradigm in modern Western culture
- History, religion, and medicine in northern Nyasaland
- The establishment, growth, and segmentation of the Livingstonia Mission
- Missionary and Tumbuka models of personhood and being : conjunctions and disjunctions between Western dualist and African monist schemas
- Vimbuza : the history of a spirit possession complex
- part two. Ethnography and analysis. The ethnographic setting and research methods
- God and the ancestors : the emergence of a syncretic Vimbuza form
- Embodying spirits : a case study in transitional syncretism
- Contested models of baptism : body, mind, and ritual symbolism
- Contested models of baptism : cleansing, salvation, and ritual efficacy
- At the crossroads : a case study in narrating life and facing death.