Golden Buttons: Christianity and Tradition Religion among the Tumbuka

Cover -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- Mission as Letting the Light Shine -- Discipleship - True or Counterfeit -- Bitter Fruits of Christian Disunity -- Faith in Tribulation -- Traditional Religion among the Tumbuka and Other Tribes -- Int...

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Main Author: Msiska, Kauta (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Luviri Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Further subjects:B Tumbuka (African people)-Religion
B Electronic books
B Christianity-Malawi
B Malawi-Religion
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Print version: Msiska, Kauta: Golden Buttons : Christianity and Tradition Religion among the Tumbuka. - Oxford : Luviri Press,c2018. - 9789996096815
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Summary:Cover -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- Mission as Letting the Light Shine -- Discipleship - True or Counterfeit -- Bitter Fruits of Christian Disunity -- Faith in Tribulation -- Traditional Religion among the Tumbuka and Other Tribes -- Introduction -- The Alternative: Backward or Forward? -- Religion before European Contact -- The Creator, higher spirits and ancestors -- The overall system of the supernatural -- Regions and regional spirits -- Regular days of worship -- Penalties for offending the spirits -- The discipline of traditional religion -- The Place of Christ in Traditional Religion -- The new that came with Christ -- What are the golden buttons an African has lost? -- The Certainty of Christianity among the People in the Villages -- Christianity and Fear -- Christianity and Diseases -- Christianity and Customs -- Christianity and Marriage -- Christianity and Death -- Christianity and the Churches -- Christianity and the World -- Christianity and the Future -- Back cover
ISBN:9996060500