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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163129203321

Autore

Thompson T. Jack

Titolo

Christianity in northern Malaŵi : Donald Fraser's missionary methods and Ngoni culture / / by T. Jack Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; New York : , : E.J. Brill, , 1995

ISBN

90-04-31996-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

Studies in Christian mission, , 0924-9389 ; ; volume 15

Disciplina

266/.02341106897

Soggetti

Ngoni (African people) - Missions - History

Missions - Malawi - History

Missions, Scottish - Malawi - History

Malawi Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material -- NGONI ORIGINS -- THE NGONI AND THE LIVINGSTONIA MISSION: EARLY INTERACTION 1878-90 -- THE NGONI AWAKENING AND THE ARRIVAL OF FRASER -- THE NGONI, THE MISSION AND THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT 1891-1904 -- FRASER’S POLICIES AND THE GROWTH OF THE NGONI CHURCH: 1900-1914 -- THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS IMPACT 1914-20 -- THE NGONI CHURCH IN THE TWENTIES AND EARLY THIRTIES -- FRASER AS A MISSION STRATEGIST -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN MISSION.

Sommario/riassunto

Christianity in Northern Malawi deals with the interaction of the missionary methods of the Scottish missionary Donald Fraser and the traditional culture of the Ngoni people of northern Malawi in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It looks at Ngoni origins and culture prior to first contacts with the missionaries, at the early life and ideas of Fraser, and at Fraser's disagreements with some of his Scottish colleagues. There are also sections on Ngoni interactions with the early colonial government, and the development of a genuinely Ngoni Church. The book uses primary and oral sources, some of which were not previously available.