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Title:Conversion and School at Chikuni, 1905-1939
Author:Carmody, Brendan P.ISNI
Year:1988
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:58
Issue:2
Pages:193-209
Language:English
Geographic term:Zambia
Subjects:religious conversion
Christianity
Tonga (Zambia, Zimbabwe)
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160661
https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1988-058-00-000011
Abstract:In the African context, religious conversion has generally meant a change from a traditional to a universal religion, entailing a psychological transformation through which the convert's underlying assumptions about the world are reconstructed. This study deals with the conversion of Tonga by the Jesuit Zambezi Mission which was established at Chikuni, southern Zambia, in 1905. It argues that the Tonga conversion was a highly selective process, dictated primarily by sociocultural factors - employment, education - and not by the intrinsic explanatory power of the new message nor by developments within the traditional cosmology. By 1939, the number of converts amounted to 6,880, but many of them adhered only nominally. Bibliogr., note, sum. in French.
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