Symposium on Faith in Flux Articles

Mobility Without Rupture: Makhuwa, Pentecostalism, and Conversion in Mozambique

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This book will be useful not only to students of African religions, but also to anthropologists, historians of religion, psychologists interested in conversion, and development specialists interested in the ways that indigenous knowledge systems insert themselves into new situations and make them more understandable and controllable.

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The Art of Not Being Converted

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Premawardhana’s sensitivity to the cultural integrity of the Makhuwa is matched by his knowledge of the literature by whose lights he admirably refracts their lives. He has chewed over the bones of contention in the literature, and is at his most penetrating when juxtaposing the presuppositions of contending anthropological and theoretical traditions.

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