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Mzuni Press Crossroads of Culture: Christianity, Ancestral Spiritualism, and the Search for Wellness in Northern Malawi

Name: Crossroads of Culture: Christianity, Ancestral Spiritualism, and the Search for Wellness in Northern Malawi
Brand: Mzuni Press
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Product Description 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 the past and today, have constructed new cultural forms that weave facets of ancestral spiritualism and divination with Christianity and biomedicine. Alongside a rich historical review of the late-19th century encounter between Tumbuka-speakers and the Scottish Presbyterians of the Livingstonia Mission, the book explores the contemporary therapeutic dance complex known as Vimbuza and considers two case studies, each the story of a man confronting illness and struggling to understand the roots and meaning of his aﬄiction. In the process, the book considers the enduring missiological and anthropological topics of conversion and syncretism, and questions the assertion by some scholars that Western missionaries in Africa have been successful agents of religious hegemony. About the Author Eric Lindland, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of religion. The son of American Baptist missionaries, he grew up in Sweden, Norway, DR Congo, and the U.S. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Emory University and now lives and works outside of Washington, DC.

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Brand: Mzuni Press
Format: Paperback
ASIN: 9996060411
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 27 March 2020
Listed Since: 27 February 2020

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