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The Bemba rites of initiation into married life, as taught by the Fimbusa Group of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kasama, translated and annotated by Pierre Lafollie
Author : Fimbusa Group Kasama
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
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ISBN : 9781723182471
The Bemba rites of initiation into married life, as taught by the Fimbusa Group of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kasama, translated and annotated by Pierre Lafollie
Author : Boston Soko
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9990802505
The purpose of this book is to show that the possession cult of Vimbuza presents itself as an oral genre which is part and parcel of African Oral Literature. The ethnolinguistic study which we undertake will permit us to catch a glimpse of its whole complexity. The analysis has a bearing on four principal aspects. Historical developments: a certain number of facts concerning the birth of possession among the Tumbuka; possession: the study attempts to show how the cult articulates itself with its beliefs and the use of divination; the social role: analysis of social functions; the style: an analysis of the linguistic procedures which are characteristic of Vimbuza songs. The presence of rhetorical figures would confirm that we are talking about an oral literary genre.
Author : Fimbusa Group Kasama
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
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ISBN : 9781722416645
"Bushe amano tufyalwa nayo? Amano ni mbuto ee, amano ni mbuto, tulondola fye."E cimo cine na mu fyupo mwine tulafwaikwa tulelundapo amano ya mu mikalile yesu, pakutila ifyupo fyesu fiwame, fileumfwika bwino, elyo fileba no mucinshi.Cino citabo balembela banacimbusa na bashicimbusa abafunda ba fyupo. Ciletwafwilisha mu mifundile yesu, ukusunga inyimbo shonse pamo na mafunde ukulingana ngefyo ifimbusa fya ku Kasama Archdiocese fifunda-mukukonka intambi pamo na Bwina Kristu.
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Malawi
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Author : A. F. C. Musonda
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Bemba language
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Short stories.
Author : Eric Lindland
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 999606042X
Combining history, ethnography, and culture theory, this book explores how residents in northwestern Malawi have responded over time to the early missionary assertion that local religious and healing practices were incompatible with Christianity and western medicine. It details how local agents, in the past and today, have constructed new cultural forms that weave facets of ancestral spiritualism and divination with Christianity and biomedicine. Alongside a rich historical review of the late-19th century encounter between Tumbuka-speakers and the Scottish Presbyterians of the Livingstonia Mission, the book explores the contemporary therapeutic dance complex known as Vimbuza and considers two case studies, each the story of a man confronting illness and struggling to understand the roots and meaning of his a?iction. In the process, the book considers the enduring missiological and anthropological topics of conversion and syncretism, and questions the assertion by some scholars that Western missionaries in Africa have been successful agents of religious hegemony.
Author : Mutale Mulenga Kaunda
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1666926256
Using decolonial and postcolonial nego-feminism, Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women's Agency, and Indigenous Cultural Systems examines the daily lives of Bemba women and how imbusa has defined the behaviors and relations between women and men at home, church, and work.
Author : Chitando, Ezra
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3863098110
This volume of BiAS/ ERA is a Festschrift honouring Nyambura J. Njoroge. She is an outstanding woman theologian whose work straddles diverse fields and disciplines. Inspired by her rich and impressive œuvre, in this volume friends and colleagues of her (among them celebrities like Musa Dube, Gerald West, Fulata Moyo, Ezra Chitando, and others) explore how religion and theology in diverse contexts can become more life giving. Contributors from many countries and different continents explore themes such as African women's leadership, theological education, HIV/ AIDS, lament, the Bible and liberation, adolescents and young women, sexual diversity and others. Collectively, the volume expresses Nyambura's consistent commitment to the full liberation of all human beings, in fulfilment of the gospel's promise that all may have life and have it to the full (John 10:10)
Author : R. M. Kambole
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Bemba language
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Author : Pierre Lafollie
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
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ISBN : 9781979122771
The Bemba rites of initiation into married life have been handed on over countless generations. The banacimbusa of Kasama have opted to preserve the sacred teachings and their own way of teaching for present and future generations of initiators. The Bemba text is accompanied by an English annotated translation, in which Father Lafollie guides us through the subtleties and intricacies of the rites.