Christianity in Malawi : a reader / edited by Klaus Fiedler and Kenneth R. Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fiedler, K. (Klaus), 1942- editor.

Ross, Kenneth R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Malawi.

Missions.

Christianity--Malawi.

Christianity.

Malawi--Church history.

Malawi.

Genre:

Church history.

Physical Description:

505 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Mzuzu, Malawi : Mzuni Press, 2021.

Contents:

The African

a child or a man? The quarrel between the Blantyre Mission of the Church of Scotland and the British Central Africa Administration, 1890-1905 / Andrew C. Ross

African leadership in the Livingstonia Mission, 1875-1900 / T. Jack Thompson

Class, violence, and gender in early colonial Malawi : the curious case of Elizabeth Pithie / John McCracken

Scots and Afrikaners in Central Africa : Andrew Charles Murray and the Dutch Reformed Mission in Malawi / Janet Wagner Parsons

The story of the Dutch Reformed Church Mission in Nyasaland / J.L. Pretorius

Msokwa Elliot Kamwana Chirwa : his religious and political activities and impact in Nkhata Bay, 1908-1958 / Wiseman C. Chirwa

Charles Domingo, Seventh Day Baptists and independency / Harry W. Langworthy

Joseph Booth, Charles Domingo, and the Seventh Day Baptists in Northern Nyasaland, 1910-12 / Kenneth P. Lohrentz

Joseph Booth and the writing of Malawian history : an attempt at interpretation / Klaus Fiedler

Y.Z. Mwasi and the origins of the Blackman's Church / John Parratt

Reverend Hanock Msokera Phiri and the establishment in Nyasaland of the African Methodist Episcopal Church / Roderick J. MacDonald

Rev Dr Daniel Sharpe Malekebu and the re-opening of the Providence Industrial Mission, 1926-39. An appreciation / Roderick J. MacDonald

The good being the enemy of the best : the politics of Bishop Frank Oswald Thorne in Nyasaland and the Federstion, 1936-1961 / James Tengatenga

The role of the churches in the development of Malawi

with particular reference to the Christian Service committee of the churches in Malawi / L.A.H. Msukwa

Holding on to mission Christianity : case studies from a Presbyterian Church in Malawi / Anne-Lise Quinn

Sisterhoods and empowerment of women in central and east Africa / Beverly Lacayo

Mvano and evangelism in the Synod of Blantyre / Silas S. Ncozana

Patrick Kalilombe

doing theology at the grassroots : a challenge for professional theologians / Victor Mundua

"Like Jairus I call you ...." Two theological attempts to recover the Malawian past / Todd Statham.

Notes:

Book is a collection of reprinted articles that "appeared in journals that are hard to access in Malawi or in books that are long out of print." -- Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789996060984

9996060985

OCLC:

1264273329

Publisher Number:

99988572676