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Title: | Preserving Bodies, Saving Souls: Religious Incongruity in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town |
Author: | Walsh, Andrew |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 366-392 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Madagascar |
Subjects: | images African Independent Churches animism Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Urbanization and Migration Labor and Employment |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1581730 |
Abstract: | This article discusses the manifestation of incongruent religious ideals in Ambondromifehy, a sapphire mining community in northern Madagascar. It focuses particularly on how members of an Evangelical Christian congregation and long-time resident animists of the place interpret one another's practices, and how these interpretations reflect a fundamental disparity in how they understand the material world that they share. It argues that the conflict that has emerged between them can only be understood in light of this significant disparity. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |