Nchimi Chikanga
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Nchimi Chikanga
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Author : Boston Soko
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2002
Nchimi Chikanga written by Boston Soko and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Chikanga was one of Malawi's most powerful and successful healers who brought concepts and methods from indigenous tradition to his own Christian culture. During the fifties and sixties people having heard he had the power of divination to free them from the bondage of witchcraft and other evil practices, would make pilgrimages to him from the whole of eastern and southern Africa. His methods were, and are, popular and common, though always controversially opposed by the institutional Christian church. This book documents eye-witness accounts of pilgrims, and Chikanga's sessions and techniques, and includes interviews with his acquaintances. It describes his activities in the political context, which forced him to go into exile for seventeen years, and his final period in Malawi.
Dancing Prophets
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Author : Steven M. Friedson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-09
Dancing Prophets written by Steven M. Friedson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09 with Music categories.
For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are saturated with music. Steven M. Friedson explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients, and drummed spirits.
Dual Religiosity In Northern Malawi
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Author : Mlenga, Joyce
language : en
Publisher: Mzuni Press
Release Date : 2016-12-13
Dual Religiosity In Northern Malawi written by Mlenga, Joyce and has been published by Mzuni Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-13 with Religion categories.
Over a century much of Africa south of the Sahara embraced the Christian religion. Malawi, where 80% of the population identify as Christian is no exception, nor are the Ngonde at its northern border with Tanzania. While it is difficult to find someone who does not claim to be a Christian, African traditional religion is by no means dead and often practiced by many. While the two religions are not “mixed”, but they are both realities in many a Christians life, though realities of a different kind. The author explores the intricate and often varied relationship between the two and considers factors which increase or decrease dual religiosity.
Vimbuza The Healing Dance Of Northern Malawi
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Author : Soko, Boston
language : en
Publisher: Mzuni Press
Release Date : 2014-06-12
Vimbuza The Healing Dance Of Northern Malawi written by Soko, Boston and has been published by Mzuni Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Social Science categories.
The purpose of this book is to show that the possession cult of Vimbuza presents itself as an oral genre which is part and parcel of African Oral Literature. The ethno-linguistic study which we undertake will permit us to catch a glimpse of its whole complexity. The analysis has a bearing on four principal aspects. Historical developments: a certain number of facts concerning the birth of possession among the Tumbuka; possession: the study attempts to show how the cult articulates itself with its beliefs and the use of divination; the social role: analysis of social functions; the style: an analysis of the linguistic procedures which are characteristic of Vimbuza songs. The presence of rhetorical figures would confirm that we are talking about an oral literary genre.
Conversion To Christianity
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Author : Robert W. Hefner
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Conversion To Christianity written by Robert W. Hefner and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Social Science categories.
One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread. These essays explore the phenomenon of Christian conversion from this world-building perspective. Combining rich case studies with original theoretical insights, this work challenges sociologists, anthropologists and historians of religion to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.
Healers And Empires In Global History
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Author : Markku Hokkanen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Healers And Empires In Global History written by Markku Hokkanen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with History categories.
This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. It highlights contests over healing, knowledge and medicines through the frameworks of hybridisation and pluralism. The intertwined histories of medicine, empire and early globalisation influenced the ways in which millions of people encountered and experienced suffering, healing and death. In an increasingly global search for therapeutics and localised definition of acceptable healing, networks and mobilities played key roles. Healers’ engagements with politics, law and religion underline the close connections between healing, power and authority. They also reveal the agency of healers, sufferers and local societies, in encounters with modernising imperial states, medical science and commercialisation. The book questions and complements the traditional narratives of triumphant biomedicine, reminding readers that ‘traditional’ medical cultures and practitioners did not often disappear, but rather underwent major changes in the increasingly interconnected world.
Crossroads Of Culture
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Author : Lindland, Eric
language : en
Publisher: Mzuni Press
Release Date : 2020-02-27
Crossroads Of Culture written by Lindland, Eric and has been published by Mzuni Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-27 with Religion categories.
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.
Fake Healing Claims For Hiv And Aids In Malawi
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Author : Fiedler, Klaus
language : en
Publisher: Mzuni Press
Release Date : 2016-12-14
Fake Healing Claims For Hiv And Aids In Malawi written by Fiedler, Klaus and has been published by Mzuni Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with Religion categories.
In this book Klaus Fiedler offers a candid critique of religious faith healing claims - a critique that extents to the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Campaign (VMMCC). The book reveals the lack of substantive evidence to back such healing claims and the contradiction between the VMMCC claims and the consequences of those claims in sexual health and practice.
Theory Of African Music
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Author : Gerhard Kubik
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
Theory Of African Music written by Gerhard Kubik and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Social Science categories.
Erudite and exhaustive, Gerhard Kubik’s Theory of African Music provides an authoritative account of its subject. Over the course of two volumes, Kubik, one of the most prominent experts in the field, draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study throughout Africa to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures. In this second volume, Kubik explores a variety of topics, including Yoruba chantefables, the musical Kachamba family of Malawˆ i, and the cognitive study of African rhythm. Drawing on his remarkable ability to make cross-cultural comparisons, Kubik illuminates every facet of the African understanding of rhythm, from timing systems to elementary pulsation. His analysis of tusona ideographs in Luchazi culture leads to an exploration of African space/time concepts that synthesizes his theories of art, rhythm, and culture. Featuring a large number of photographs and accompanied by a compact disc of Kubik’s own recordings, Theory of African Music, Volume II, will be an invaluable reference for years to come.
Christianity And Socio Cultural Issues
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Author : Rhodian G. Munyenyembe
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2011
Christianity And Socio Cultural Issues written by Rhodian G. Munyenyembe and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Religion categories.
Chapter 1: A historical overview of the church in Malawi in relation to social cultural issues; Chapter 2: The Charismatic Movement : an exposition; Chapter 3: The Charismatic Movement and contextualization in Malawi; Chapter 4: The conclusion of the matter.