| Summary: | Cover -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note on Naming and Translation -- Map 1: Peoples of the Lake Nyasa basin, ca. 1875 -- Map 2: Livingstonia Mission stations -- Map 3: Embangweni (Loudon) Station, 2000 -- INTRODUCTION -- The Research Context -- A History of Encounters -- Choosing a Field Site -- Embangweni Station -- The Embangweni Ecclesiastical Context -- The Research Framework -- The Broader Research Context: Crisis and Challenge -- Conclusion -- PART ONE. History and Theory -- CHAPTER ONE - Missiology and Anthropology in the Study of Christian Missions in Africa -- Missiological Perspectives on Conversion and Syncretism -- Anthropological Perspectives on Syncretism and Conversion -- Anthropological Theories of Conversion: Rationalization, Cosmology, and Colonialism -- Further Anthropological Theories of Conversion: Power, Pragmatism, and the Contradictions of Colonization -- Anthropological Theories of Syncretism: As Structure and Meaning -- Modeling and Schematization: Towards Developing a Cognitive Anthropology of Syncretism and Conversion -- Cultural Models and Analogic Schematization -- Structures of Conjuncture and Disjuncture -- Of Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness -- Durable Schemas and Challenging Hegemonies -- CHAPTER TWO - Historical Theologies of Bodily Resurrection and the Emergence of a Dualist Paradigm in Modern Western Culture -- Introduction -- A Christian of Death and Resurrection -- Metaphors of Decay and Fertility in an Emergent Christian Theology of Bodily Resurrection -- Developments in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Theology: The Soul's Desire for the Resurrected Body -- Body/Soul Hierarchies and the Emergence of a Dualist Paradigm -- Cartesian Dualism and the Further Intellectualization of Soul -- Protestantism and the Reformed Tradition -- Presbyterianism.
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