Christianity in Northern Malaŵi: Donald Fraser's Missionary Methods and Ngoni CultureChristianity in Northern Malawi deals with the interaction of the missionary methods of the Scottish missionary Donald Fraser and the traditional culture of the Ngoni people of northern Malawi in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It looks at Ngoni origins and culture prior to first contacts with the missionaries, at the early life and ideas of Fraser, and at Fraser's disagreements with some of his Scottish colleagues. There are also sections on Ngoni interactions with the early colonial government, and the development of a genuinely Ngoni church. Using primary and oral sources (some of which were not previously available) this book will be useful to all those interested in the development of Christianity in Africa, and, in particular, to those with an interest in the inculturation of Christianity in Africa, and the religious and political history of Malawi. |
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African Christians April August Bandawe baptism Blantyre British catechumens cattle Central Africa Chibambo Chibisa Chilembwe Chimtunga Chinula chiTumbuka Church of Scotland conference congregation Cullen Young Daniel Nhlane December district Donald Fraser early Ekwendeni elders Elmslie file Elmslie to Laws Elmslie's evangelists FCSM foreign mission Free Church furlough Ibid important involved January Jonathan Chirwa July June Kaning'ina Karonga Kasungu Khondowe kirk session Koyi large numbers later Livingstonia committee Livingstonia mission council Livingstonia missionaries Livingstonia papers Livingstonia presbytery minutes Loudon Loudon session M'mbelwa MacAlpine Margaret Read McCracken migration missionary Mpezeni Mtwalo Mwasi Mzimba Mzimba district Native Association Ndwandwe Ng'onomo Ngoni chiefs Ngoni Christians Ngoni church Ngoni culture Ngoni society Njuyu northern Malawi northern Ngoni November Nyasaland October ordination period personal interview political sacramental conventions schools September Soshangane South Africa station teachers Tonga Tumbuka UFCSMR views village Wild Ngoni Yesaya Zambia Ziehl Zoute Zulu Zwangendaba Zwide
