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Title:Independency among the Merina, 1833-1929
Author:Gow, Bonar A.
Year:1981
Periodical:International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume:52
Issue:2
Pages:229-253
Language:English
Geographic term:Madagascar
Subjects:African Independent Churches
Merina
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
Religion and Witchcraft
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/218044
Abstract:It is in Imerina that the first independent churches in Madagascar emerged. Merina independency sprang from a number of sources, amongst which dislike of whites and questions of scriptural interpretation were of secondary importance. Rather, Merina independence had its roots in the leader's personal ambitions and a need on the part of the Merina Christian community to indigenize the church. These two themes surfaced in each of the independent Protestant church movdments in Imerina between 1833 and 1929, the broad spectrum of which is described and analysed in the present article. Map, notes.
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