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Title: | Conversion and School at Chikuni, 1905-1939 |
Author: | Carmody, Brendan P. |
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. |