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03902aam a22004694i 4500 001 99F7C7C0FFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 210311s2020 mw ab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021334078 020 $a 9996060411 020 $a 9789996060410 035 $a (OCoLC)1143622518 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d L2U $d TEU $d CUY $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc $a pcc 043 $a f-mw--- 050 00 $a BR128.A16 $b L56 2020 082 04 $a 261.2/969897 $2 23 100 1 $a Lindland, Eric, $e author. 245 10 $a Crossroads of culture : $b Christianity, ancestral spiritualism, and the search for wellness in northern Malawi / $c Eric Lindland. 264 1 $a Luwinga, Mzuzu [Malawi] : $b Mzuni Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 614 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Mzuni Books ; $v no. 24 520 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 590-602) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Christianity and other religions $z Malawi. 650 0 $a Healing $z Malawi $x Religious aspects. 650 0 $a Traditional medicine $z Malawi. 650 0 $a Spiritualism. 650 7 $a Healing $x Religious aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00952712 650 7 $a Africans $x Religion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799951 650 7 $a Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859599 650 7 $a Healing $x Christianity. $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00952717 650 7 $a Interfaith relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353343 650 7 $a Spiritualism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01130170 650 7 $a Traditional medicine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01153974 651 7 $a Malawi. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01209421 830 0 $a Mzuni books ; $v no. 24. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317024245.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=99F7C7C0FFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search