[BOEK][B] River of blood: the genesis of a martyr cult in Southern Malawi, cad 1600

JM Schoffeleers - 1992 - books.google.com
The culmination of years of fieldwork in southern Malawi, River of Blood reconstructs the
beginnings of the Mbona martyr cult, follows its history to the present day, and reveals the …

[BOEK][B] Religion and the dramatisation of life: Spirit beliefs and rituals in Southern and Central Malawi

JM Schoffeleers - 1997 - ixtheo.de
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[BOEK][B] Pentecostalism and Neo-traditionalism: the religious polarization of a rural district in southern Malawi

JM Schoffeleers - 1985 - brill.com
When Malawi gained its independence from Great Britain in 1964, its southernmost district,
Nsanje, possessed a religious system familiar in a great many rural areas in Black Africa. …

[BOEK][B] The Interaction of the M'Bona Cult and Christianity, 1859-1963

JM Schoffeleers - 1975 - degruyter.com
The M'Bona cult has been associated for many centuries with the Mang'anja people, who
once occupied the greater part of southern Malawi and adjacent areas of Mozambique but are …

Introduction: Theoretical explorations in African religion

WMJ Van Binsbergen… - African Study …, 1985 - scholarlypublications …
This collection of papers on theoretical and methodological perspectives in the study of African
religion is the outcome of a conference held at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, in 1979…

[BOEK][B] Oral history and the retrieval of the distant past: On the use of legendary chronicles as sources of historical information

JM Schoffeleers - 1979 - taylorfrancis.com
Some years ago, Luc de Heusch criticized Vansina and others for their somewhat overconfident
use of legendary chronicles, such as those relating to the first Luba kings, as sources of …

From socialization to personal enterprise: a history of the Nomi labor societies in the Nsanje district of Malawi, c. 1891-1972.

JM Schoffeleers - 1973 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The Nomi societies came to Malawi from Portugese East Africa and are typical of the
southern part of the Nsanje district. There was about one group to every three administrative …

Economic change and religious polarization in an African rural district.

JM Schoffeleers - 1985 - cabidigitallibrary.org
In Nsanje district in the Shire valley, Malawi, during the 1970s, relations between Christianity
and traditional religion polarized, even to the point of occasional physical violence. The …

[CITAAT][C] Guardians of the land: essays on Central African territorial cults

JM Schoffeleers - Zambeziana, 1979 - ixtheo.de
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[CITAAT][C] The meaning and use of the name Malawi in oral traditions and precolonial documents

JM Schoffeleers - 1972