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

Published Oxford : MZUNI Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (632 p.) Series Mzuni books ; no. 24 Mzuni books ; no. 24. Contents 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 Notes Description based upon print version of record Missionary Models of Personhood and Being: Essentialism, Intellectualism, and Individualism Subject Christianity and other religions -- African. Christianity and other religions -- Malawi Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Traditional medicine -- Malawi Africans -- Religion Christianity Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Interfaith relations Traditional medicine Malawi Form Electronic book ISBN 9789996060427 999606042X

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