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Type:
Articles
Place:
Malawi
Date:
2000
Notes:
Illustrations.
Contents:
Preliminary considerations -- The Complementarity of anthropology and theology -- Geographic and demographic data -- Criteria for selection and reception -- Geographic and ethnic criteria -- Criteria from the history and philosophy of religion and from theology -- Myth and religious orientation -- Rain rituals -- The origin of rain rituals -- Msinja and Makewana -- Mankhamba and Mwali -- Other rain cults -- The ritual burning of Bunda Hill -- Mbona -- The Gule wamkulu (the great dance) -- The rites of passage -- Pregnancy and birth -- The strengthening of the womb (kumanga mimba) -- Birth (chikuta) -- Introduction of the child (kuturutsa chikuta) -- The warming up of the child (kufunditsa mwana) -- The initiation of boys -- The initiation of girls -- The enthronement of the chief -- Funeral and mourning rites -- Healing rites