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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.
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