David Maxwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 84605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Maxwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Maxwell |
| SIGNATURE | MAXWELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1701-5917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 295 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Expanding Oral Health Access and Equity
The FQHC model can improve oral health access and equity for underserved populations
Covenantal Pluralism in Zimbabwe—from Ecumenical Councils to Grassroots Ecumenism
Despite Christian adherence at 85%, high levels of religious literacy, and constitutional provision for religious freedom, the prospects for covenantal pluralism in Zimbabwe are limited. The Zimbabwean church is divided by denomination, theology, and ethnicity. These divisions have roots in the colonial era, but they have been exacerbated by the post-colonial state since independence in 1980. From the 2000s, the regime has sought to split the chu…
Forbidden Revolutions
This article illuminates how David Martin's engagement with Pentecostalism represented a significant turning point in his career in both personal and academic terms. It allowed him to come to terms with his own Methodist 'revivalist childhood' and to generate new insights into his pre-existing concerns: insights into the sociological method, the relation of religion to politics, the modernity of religion, and the secularisation thesis. In particu…
Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe
This is the fascinating social history of a remote chiefdom in Zimbabwe. The book focuses on the religion and politics of the area, describing how the Hwesa people adapted the Christianity that the missionaries brought to found their own popular Christianity, pitted against local notions of evil. It also examines the role of the chief, challenging the idea that the they were no more than colonial stooges. Key Features Original and perceptive writ…
A Cross-cultural Perspective on Upper Palaeolithic Hand Images with Missing Phalanges
Continuity and Change in the Luba Christian Movement, Katanga, Belgian Congo, c. 1915–50
This article studies the Christian movement that occurred amongst the Luba of Katanga, Belgian Congo, from about 1915 to 1950, paying particular attention to how it was received by different social categories and mediated by local religious enthusiasts. The notion of conversion is examined across two generations with reference to ageing, revival and reprise via a case study of the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM), a Pentecostal faith body. The pa…
Wendy Urban-Mead. The Gender of Piety
Wendy Urban-Mead’s The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, and Colonial Rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe makes an original contribution to scholarship on religious entanglements, gender relations, and the history of colonial Zimbabwe. It also provides a valuable guide on how to conduct a fruitful oral research project. The monograph examines how Ndebele-speaking Africans became Christians and traces their gendered interactions with the teachings of the…
Resilience in the face of sexual minority stress
This qualitative study explored the experience of sexual minority stressors and corresponding resilience. Using a grounded theory approach, the core category identified in the analysis was minority stress results from systemic factors that cause lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people to face competition between their desires for authenticity and self-determination. These findings shed light upon the insidious nature of minority stress, especiall…
The creation of Lubaland
This article examines the role of missionary social scientific research and Protestant Christian literacy in the making of the Luba Katanga ethnicity in colonial Belgian Congo. While pre-colonial Luba identity was plural and fluid, those located in the polity’s heartlands shared a political aesthetic of divine kingship embodied in a rich material culture, which was emulated by neighbouring communities as marker of sophistication and civilisation.…
The Missionary Movement in African and World History
This article is a revised and expanded version of my inaugural lecture as Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, delivered on 12 March 2014. It highlights the evolution of Ecclesiastical History to include the study of Christianity in the global south and shows how recent developments in the study of African and world history have produced a dynamic and multi-faceted model of religious encounter, an encounter wh…
The Missionary Home as a Site for Mission
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant missionaries considered themselves exemplars of the Christian home. They devoted considerable energy to writing about domesticity and to constructing model homes in the mission field. In spite of their good intentions there was often a large gap between their ideals and the realities of life on mission stations. By means of a case study of a Pentecostal faith mission in Katanga, Belgian Congo, this ess…
Christianity
The chapter examines conversion to Christianity, one of the most significant social and cultural transformations in twentieth-century Africa. The focus is upon the role of Christianity in African society, with emphasis on the making of identities of class, ethnicity, gender, generation, and nation. The diversity of African Christianity is examined in terms of both the range of African societies it encountered and the spectrum of changing mission …
Bison death assemblages and the interpretation of human hunting behaviour
Freed Slaves, Missionaries, and Respectability
This article extends the history of freed slaves from the well-studied areas of West Africa to the frontier between Angola and Belgian Congo. Originally enslaved by Ovimbundu traders in what became south-eastern Belgian Congo, these enslaved people became Christians through contact with Euro-American missions while labouring in Angola. Following the abolition of slavery in the Portuguese Empire in the 1910s, they returned to their home areas as C…
What Makes a Christian? Perspectives From Studies of Pneumatic Christianity
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Photography and the Religious Encounter
William F. P. Burton's career straddled several worlds that seemed at odds with each other. As a first-generation Pentecostal he pioneered, with James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) at Mwanza, Belgian Congo in 1915. The CEM became a paradigm for future Pentecostal Faith Mission work in Africa, thanks to Burton's propagandist writings that were published in at least thirty European and North American missionary periodicals. His exten…
Migration and Christian Identity in Congo (DRC)
High-resolution sclerochronological analysis of the bivalve mollusk Saxidomus gigantea from Alaska and British Columbia
A Tribute to Ingrid Lawrie
The Soul of the Luba
This article examines the motivations, institutions and processes involved in colonial knowledge formation through a study of the missionary William Burton. It considers Burton’s work on the Luba of Katanga in relation to the practices of Belgian colonial science and Anglo‐Saxon social anthropology. The essay discusses why missionaries engaged in ethnographic research when they were so intent on changing the customs and beliefs they described and…
Stingray Spine Use and Maya Bloodletting Rituals
Stingray spine use in Maya human bloodletting rituals has long been an accepted phenomenon. Recent work has suggested that intact spines may have been used and that the symptoms resulting from envenomation were an important part of the bloodletting ritual. Zoological and medical research, however, indicate that stingray toxins pose a more serious threat to human health than mere pain and inflammation. Medical studies conducted to track injuries r…
The Religious Traditions of Africa
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Writing the History of African Christianity
This article reviews the literature on African Christian Studies from the 1990s onwards and suggests new directions for research. The field has drawn great impetus from a series of historical/anthropological debates over conversion and the relative significance of missionary imperial hegemony and African agency. But there is a great need for work on twentieth-century missionaries and their contribution to colonial science. And there are too few s…
The Durawall of Faith
This paper considers the nature of Pentecostal spirituality in contemporary Zimbabwe, taking as its case study Zimbabwe Assemblies of God, Africa (ZAOGA), one of the continent's largest and most vital Pentecostal movements. The analysis centres upon a lexicon of key words, phrases and narratives used in song, preaching, testimony and prayer. For example, there is a preponderance of images of security, including the 'durawall', the protective conc…
Christianity and the African Imagination
David Maxwell (ed.) with Ingrid Lawrie, Christianity and the African Imagination: essays in honour of Adrian Hastings. Studies of Religion in Africa, 23. Leiden: Brill., 2002, 421 pp, €75.00 (US$94.00), ISBN 90 04 11668 0 (hardback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
Delivered From the Spirit of Poverty
L'article etudie les rapports du pentecotisme a la modernite et au progres economique en Afrique au Zimbabwe. L'A. montre comment les pentecotistes du Zimbabwe ont faconne leur propre version de la prosperite evangelique pour transformer la societe. Les pentecotistes deviennent autonomes en accomplissant une rupture avec le passe et la tradition impliquant un changement social
Catch the Cockerel Before Dawn
The article examines relations between pentecostalism and politics in post-colonial Zimbabwe through a case study of one of Africa's largest pentecostal movements, Zimbabwe Assemblies of God, Africa (ZAOGA). The Church's relations with the state change considerably from the colonial to the post-colonial era. The movement began as a sectarian township-based organisation which eschewed politics but used white Rhodesian and American contacts to gain…
High-resolution sclerochronological analysis of the bivalve mollusk Saxidomus gigantea from Alaska and British Columbia
Historicizing Christian Independency
Scholarly study of Christian independency in southern Africa began with the publication of Bengt Sundkler's Bantu Prophets in 1948. A rich literature subsequently followed, much of it deploying his now classic typology of Ethiopian and Zionist Churches. Nevertheless, the historical study of independency has been limited. As one scholar has recently observed, historians have tended to focus on the Ethiopian-type churches, leaving the study of the …
Photography and the Religious Encounter
William F. P. Burton's career straddled several worlds that seemed at odds with each other. As a first-generation Pentecostal he pioneered, with James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) at Mwanza, Belgian Congo in 1915. The CEM became a paradigm for future Pentecostal Faith Mission work in Africa, thanks to Burton's propagandist writings that were published in at least thirty European and North American missionary periodicals. His exten…
The Soul of the Luba
This article examines the motivations, institutions and processes involved in colonial knowledge formation through a study of the missionary William Burton. It considers Burton’s work on the Luba of Katanga in relation to the practices of Belgian colonial science and Anglo‐Saxon social anthropology. The essay discusses why missionaries engaged in ethnographic research when they were so intent on changing the customs and beliefs they described and…
Freed Slaves, Missionaries, and Respectability
This article extends the history of freed slaves from the well-studied areas of West Africa to the frontier between Angola and Belgian Congo. Originally enslaved by Ovimbundu traders in what became south-eastern Belgian Congo, these enslaved people became Christians through contact with Euro-American missions while labouring in Angola. Following the abolition of slavery in the Portuguese Empire in the 1910s, they returned to their home areas as C…
Resilience in the face of sexual minority stress
This qualitative study explored the experience of sexual minority stressors and corresponding resilience. Using a grounded theory approach, the core category identified in the analysis was minority stress results from systemic factors that cause lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people to face competition between their desires for authenticity and self-determination. These findings shed light upon the insidious nature of minority stress, especiall…
Writing the History of African Christianity
This article reviews the literature on African Christian Studies from the 1990s onwards and suggests new directions for research. The field has drawn great impetus from a series of historical/anthropological debates over conversion and the relative significance of missionary imperial hegemony and African agency. But there is a great need for work on twentieth-century missionaries and their contribution to colonial science. And there are too few s…
Christianity and the African Imagination
During the twentieth-century, Christendom shifted its centre of gravity to the Southern Hemisphere, Africa becoming the most significant area of church growth. This volume explores Christianity's advance across the continent, and its capturing of the African imagination. From the medieval Catholic Kingdom of Kongo to a transnational Pentecostal movement in post-colonial Zimbabwe, the chapters explore how African agents - priests and prophets, mar…
Stingray Spine Use and Maya Bloodletting Rituals
Stingray spine use in Maya human bloodletting rituals has long been an accepted phenomenon. Recent work has suggested that intact spines may have been used and that the symptoms resulting from envenomation were an important part of the bloodletting ritual. Zoological and medical research, however, indicate that stingray toxins pose a more serious threat to human health than mere pain and inflammation. Medical studies conducted to track injuries r…
The Durawall of Faith
This paper considers the nature of Pentecostal spirituality in contemporary Zimbabwe, taking as its case study Zimbabwe Assemblies of God, Africa (ZAOGA), one of the continent's largest and most vital Pentecostal movements. The analysis centres upon a lexicon of key words, phrases and narratives used in song, preaching, testimony and prayer. For example, there is a preponderance of images of security, including the 'durawall', the protective conc…
The creation of Lubaland
This article examines the role of missionary social scientific research and Protestant Christian literacy in the making of the Luba Katanga ethnicity in colonial Belgian Congo. While pre-colonial Luba identity was plural and fluid, those located in the polity’s heartlands shared a political aesthetic of divine kingship embodied in a rich material culture, which was emulated by neighbouring communities as marker of sophistication and civilisation.…
The Missionary Movement in African and World History
This article is a revised and expanded version of my inaugural lecture as Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, delivered on 12 March 2014. It highlights the evolution of Ecclesiastical History to include the study of Christianity in the global south and shows how recent developments in the study of African and world history have produced a dynamic and multi-faceted model of religious encounter, an encounter wh…
Local politics and the war of liberation in North-East Zimbabwe
Inquiry into the nature of interactions between rural societies and guerrillas is now a central concern of scholars studying southern Africa. This case study, which focuses on the Katerere chiefdom of northern Nyanga district Zimbabwe, analyses the interaction of local politics with guerrilla strategies of mobilisation during the country's war of liberation, 1976–1980. It argues that peasant agendas were more salient than guerrilla ideology, whic…
Beyond Maritime Symbolism
Tikal caches frequently contain a wide variety of marine materials such as shells, fish bones, and stingray spines (Coe 1990; Maxwell 1996). Beyond the possible use of stingray spines as bloodletters, however, little attention has been given to the role of these objects in ritual. Numerous caches contain the remains of toxic animals, including stingrays, porcupine fish, cone shells, and potentially toxic corals and sponges. Intriguingly, these ob…
In Defence of African Creativity
REVIEW ARTICLE IN DEFENCE OF AFRICAN CREATIVITY BY DAVID MAXWELL (Keele University) GIFFORD, Paul, African Christianity. Its Public Role, London, Hurst & Co., 1998, viii, 368 pp., 1 85065 335 6. African states have undergone considerable political change over the last decade and a half. Prior to the mid 1980s the power structures of the prevailing autocratic or one-party regimes seemed unitary and hege- monic. Such regimes had sought to engross i…
Delivered from the Spirit of Poverty
The Missionary Home as a Site for Mission
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant missionaries considered themselves exemplars of the Christian home. They devoted considerable energy to writing about domesticity and to constructing model homes in the mission field. In spite of their good intentions there was often a large gap between their ideals and the realities of life on mission stations. By means of a case study of a Pentecostal faith mission in Katanga, Belgian Congo, this ess…
What Makes a Christian? Perspectives From Studies of Pneumatic Christianity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Christianity and the African Imagination
David Maxwell (ed.) with Ingrid Lawrie, Christianity and the African Imagination: essays in honour of Adrian Hastings. Studies of Religion in Africa, 23. Leiden: Brill., 2002, 421 pp, €75.00 (US$94.00), ISBN 90 04 11668 0 (hardback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
The spirit and the scapular
This paper seeks to advance local level studies of African Christianity. It focuses on the missionary encounter with the Katerere chiefdom of north east Zimbabwe, during the 1950s — a period not usually associated with pioneer missionary activity. During this decade there was such a rapid conversion to the new churches that they took on the appearance of a religious movement. Africans rapidly adhered to Elim Pentecostalism as it legitimated itsel…
Witches, Prophets and Avenging Spirits
David Maxwell, Witches, Prophets and Avenging Spirits: The Second Christian Movement in North-East Zimbabwe, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 25, Fasc. 3, Religion in Contemporary Zimbabwe (Aug., 1995), pp. 309-339
New perspectives on the history of African Christianity
John Baur, 2000 Years of Christianity in Africa. An African History (Paulines Press, Nairobi, 1994), 560 pp., $10 pbk, ISBN 9966–21–110–1. Harvey J. Sindima, Drums of Redemption. An Introduction to African Christianity (Greenwood Press, Westpont, 1994), xiv + 211 pp., £49.50 hbk, ISBN 0–313–29088–1. Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa. From Antiquity to the Present (SPCK, London, 1995), xi + 420 pp., £25 pbk, ISBN 0–281–04764–2…
"A System of Symbolic Gesture in Čexov's "Step
Literary Impressionism, James, and Chekhov
Local politics and the war of liberation in North-East Zimbabwe
Inquiry into the nature of interactions between rural societies and guerrillas is now a central concern of scholars studying southern Africa. This case study, which focuses on the Katerere chiefdom of northern Nyanga district Zimbabwe, analyses the interaction of local politics with guerrilla strategies of mobilisation during the country's war of liberation, 1976–1980. It argues that peasant agendas were more salient than guerrilla ideology, whic…
Witches, Prophets and Avenging Spirits
L'A. analyse la proliferation des Eglises pentecotistes dans le nord-est du Zimbabwe. Les populations Shona du nord-est sont une bonne illustration de la relation entre ce mouvement religieux d'une part, les transformations sociales et les tensions rurales de l'autre. La religion des Shona connait des vagues d'enthousiasme dont la caracteristique actuelle est d'etre pentecotiste. Ces mouvements religieux doivent eux-memes etre inscrits dans une t…
Witches, Prophets and Avenging Spirits
David Maxwell, Witches, Prophets and Avenging Spirits: The Second Christian Movement in North-East Zimbabwe, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 25, Fasc. 3, Religion in Contemporary Zimbabwe (Aug., 1995), pp. 309-339
The spirit and the scapular
This paper seeks to advance local level studies of African Christianity. It focuses on the missionary encounter with the Katerere chiefdom of north east Zimbabwe, during the 1950s — a period not usually associated with pioneer missionary activity. During this decade there was such a rapid conversion to the new churches that they took on the appearance of a religious movement. Africans rapidly adhered to Elim Pentecostalism as it legitimated itsel…
New perspectives on the history of African Christianity
John Baur, 2000 Years of Christianity in Africa. An African History (Paulines Press, Nairobi, 1994), 560 pp., $10 pbk, ISBN 9966–21–110–1. Harvey J. Sindima, Drums of Redemption. An Introduction to African Christianity (Greenwood Press, Westpont, 1994), xiv + 211 pp., £49.50 hbk, ISBN 0–313–29088–1. Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa. From Antiquity to the Present (SPCK, London, 1995), xi + 420 pp., £25 pbk, ISBN 0–281–04764–2…
Delivered from the Spirit of Poverty
Delivered From the Spirit of Poverty
L'article etudie les rapports du pentecotisme a la modernite et au progres economique en Afrique au Zimbabwe. L'A. montre comment les pentecotistes du Zimbabwe ont faconne leur propre version de la prosperite evangelique pour transformer la societe. Les pentecotistes deviennent autonomes en accomplissant une rupture avec le passe et la tradition impliquant un changement social
Historicizing Christian Independency
Scholarly study of Christian independency in southern Africa began with the publication of Bengt Sundkler's Bantu Prophets in 1948. A rich literature subsequently followed, much of it deploying his now classic typology of Ethiopian and Zionist Churches. Nevertheless, the historical study of independency has been limited. As one scholar has recently observed, historians have tended to focus on the Ethiopian-type churches, leaving the study of the …
Beyond Maritime Symbolism
Tikal caches frequently contain a wide variety of marine materials such as shells, fish bones, and stingray spines (Coe 1990; Maxwell 1996). Beyond the possible use of stingray spines as bloodletters, however, little attention has been given to the role of these objects in ritual. Numerous caches contain the remains of toxic animals, including stingrays, porcupine fish, cone shells, and potentially toxic corals and sponges. Intriguingly, these ob…
In Defence of African Creativity
REVIEW ARTICLE IN DEFENCE OF AFRICAN CREATIVITY BY DAVID MAXWELL (Keele University) GIFFORD, Paul, African Christianity. Its Public Role, London, Hurst & Co., 1998, viii, 368 pp., 1 85065 335 6. African states have undergone considerable political change over the last decade and a half. Prior to the mid 1980s the power structures of the prevailing autocratic or one-party regimes seemed unitary and hege- monic. Such regimes had sought to engross i…
Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe
This is the fascinating social history of a remote chiefdom in Zimbabwe. The book focuses on the religion and politics of the area, describing how the Hwesa people adapted the Christianity that the missionaries brought to found their own popular Christianity, pitted against local notions of evil. It also examines the role of the chief, challenging the idea that the they were no more than colonial stooges. Key Features *Original and perceptive wri…
Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe
Catch the Cockerel Before Dawn
The article examines relations between pentecostalism and politics in post-colonial Zimbabwe through a case study of one of Africa's largest pentecostal movements, Zimbabwe Assemblies of God, Africa (ZAOGA). The Church's relations with the state change considerably from the colonial to the post-colonial era. The movement began as a sectarian township-based organisation which eschewed politics but used white Rhodesian and American contacts to gain…
Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe
David Maxwell Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: a social history of the Hwesa people, c. 1870s–1990s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Institute, 1999, 291 pp., £29.95, ISBN 0 7486 1129 0 (hard covers), £14.95, ISBN 0 7486 1130 4 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 1
Christianity and the African Imagination
During the twentieth-century, Christendom shifted its centre of gravity to the Southern Hemisphere, Africa becoming the most significant area of church growth. This volume explores Christianity’s advance across the continent, and its capturing of the African imagination. From the medieval Catholic Kingdom of Kongo to a transnational Pentecostal movement in post-colonial Zimbabwe, the chapters explore how African agents – priests and prophets, mar…
Bengt Sundkler and African Christian Studies
Journal Article Bengt Sundkler and African Christian Studies Get access David Maxwell David Maxwell David Maxwell is Senior Lecturer in History at Keele University, and editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 101, Issue 404, 1 July 2002, Pages 433–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/101.404.433 Published: 01 July 2002
Christianity and the African Imagination
During the twentieth-century, Christendom shifted its centre of gravity to the Southern Hemisphere, Africa becoming the most significant area of church growth. This volume explores Christianity's advance across the continent, and its capturing of the African imagination. From the medieval Catholic Kingdom of Kongo to a transnational Pentecostal movement in post-colonial Zimbabwe, the chapters explore how African agents - priests and prophets, mar…
Christianity and the African Imagination
David Maxwell (ed.) with Ingrid Lawrie, Christianity and the African Imagination: essays in honour of Adrian Hastings. Studies of Religion in Africa, 23. Leiden: Brill., 2002, 421 pp, €75.00 (US$94.00), ISBN 90 04 11668 0 (hardback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
The Durawall of Faith
This paper considers the nature of Pentecostal spirituality in contemporary Zimbabwe, taking as its case study Zimbabwe Assemblies of God, Africa (ZAOGA), one of the continent's largest and most vital Pentecostal movements. The analysis centres upon a lexicon of key words, phrases and narratives used in song, preaching, testimony and prayer. For example, there is a preponderance of images of security, including the 'durawall', the protective conc…
Writing the History of African Christianity
This article reviews the literature on African Christian Studies from the 1990s onwards and suggests new directions for research. The field has drawn great impetus from a series of historical/anthropological debates over conversion and the relative significance of missionary imperial hegemony and African agency. But there is a great need for work on twentieth-century missionaries and their contribution to colonial science. And there are too few s…
The Religious Traditions of Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Soul of the Luba
This article examines the motivations, institutions and processes involved in colonial knowledge formation through a study of the missionary William Burton. It considers Burton’s work on the Luba of Katanga in relation to the practices of Belgian colonial science and Anglo‐Saxon social anthropology. The essay discusses why missionaries engaged in ethnographic research when they were so intent on changing the customs and beliefs they described and…
Stingray Spine Use and Maya Bloodletting Rituals
Stingray spine use in Maya human bloodletting rituals has long been an accepted phenomenon. Recent work has suggested that intact spines may have been used and that the symptoms resulting from envenomation were an important part of the bloodletting ritual. Zoological and medical research, however, indicate that stingray toxins pose a more serious threat to human health than mere pain and inflammation. Medical studies conducted to track injuries r…
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