Matthew Schoffeleers
Biographic Data
| ID | 75647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Schoffeleers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoffeleers |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOFFELEERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Search of Truth and Justice: Confrontations between Church and State in Malawi, 1960-1994
Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People, c. 1870s-1990s
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
Montfortians in Malawi: Their Spirituality and Pastoral Approach
L'A. presente trois ouvrages, celui cite dans le titre de H. Reijnaerts, Religion et dramatisation de la vie : croyance aux esprits et rituels dans le centre et le sud du Malawi de Matthew Schoeffeleers, et Femmes, presbytarianisme et patriarcat : l'experience religieuse des femmes Chewa au centre du Malawi de Isabel Phiri. Ces trois livres sont fort differents mais sont des exemples de l'initiative de l'entreprise de publication Kachere lancee p…
The Aids Pandemic, the Prophet Billy Chisupe, and the Democratization Process in Malawi
Cet article presente le cas de Billy Chisupe, fermier du sud Malawi qui fit un reve en 1994 dans lequel des esprits d'ancetres lui designaient un arbre dont l'ecorce etait censee contenir la guerison definitive du SIDA. Au bout de quelques mois des dizaines de milliers de personnes se rendaient chez lui pour y recevoir ce medicament nomme «Mchape». Apres presentation de ce cas, l'A. propose une interpretation de ses images sous-jacentes et conclu…
In Search of Truth and Justice: Confrontations between Church and State in Malawi 1960-1994
Custodians of the Land: Ecology & Culture in the History of Tanzania
Dialog der Bilder. Die Begegnung von Evangelium und Kultur in Afrikanischer Kunst
Robin Lamburn--From a Missionary's Notebook: The Yao of Tunduru and Other Essays
Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa
Of Revelation and Revolution. Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa, Vol. 1
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Igor Kopytoff, ed
Twins and Unilateral Figures in Central and Southern Africa: Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Symbolization of the Sacred
Unilateral figures may be said to constitute a quasi-universal mythological theme in view of the fact that in numerous cultures gods and spirits are being portrayed as anthropomorphic beings consisting of one side only. Less drastically, such beings may be depicted also as in possession of two sides, a human one and one modelled of beeswax, vegetal material, earth, stone, iron or suchlike. In creation stories we are sometimes told that the gods a…
Ritual healing and political acquiescence: The case of the Zionist Churches in southern Africa
Zionist Churches, especially those emphasising healing, exhibit a strikingly acquiescent attitude towards South African State politicies. This article examines the evidence as well as the explanations that have been put forward by social scientists and theologians. The particular focus of the article, however, is on medical systems as mechanisms of social control, a perspective that in this context has tended to be overlooked
Moment of Encounter
The Missionary and the Diviner. Contending Theologies of Christian and African Religions
Through a series of conversations, a Christian missionary and an African diviner challenge and compare one another's views on fundamental theological questions: the meaning of God; family and community; sickness and healing; death and the afterlife; good and evil. Their discussions tellingly reveal both the vitality of traditional African religions and Christianity's ethnocentrism when faced with certain basic issues in Africa. In a larger sense,…
A Reader in African Christian Theology
Religion and Development: Towards an Integrated Approach
Folk Christology in Africa: The Dialectics of the Nganga Paradigm
Religion and development: Towards an integrated approach
Myth and/or History: A Reply to Christopher Wrigley
Christopher Wrigley's objections, in ‘The River God’, to my historical interpretation of some Mbona stories do not differ substantially from those of Luc de Heusch against Vansina. In essence, the allegation is that the historical information I think can be derived from those stories finds little support in the historical facts insofar as they are known to us. Or, put somewhat more mildly, even if my historical interpretation of the Mbona stories…
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
Black and African Theology in Southern Africa: A Controversy Re-Examined
The above quotation from a prominent South African theologian seems eminently applicable to a country where the system of apartheid has given rise to theologies, which are either strongly supportive of or sharply antagonistic to the status quo. Indeed, at the present juncture one can hardly think of another country, where theology is so passionately engaged in as South Africa. The reason is that there are few places where oppression is so evident…
Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915
Ideological Confrontation and the Manipulation of Oral History: A Zambesian Case
Ever since Malinowski formulated his concept of myths as charters, there has been a tendency among anthropologists to regard origin myths more or less as post factum constructs designed to legitimize existing privileges and positions. A classic example of this pragmatist view is Leach's study of political systems in highland Burma, in which he attempts to demonstrate that origin myths change with clocklike regularity in response to shifts in the …
The Zimba and the Lundu State in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
This article is a partial answer to M. D. D. Newitt, who proposed that settled Maravi states were established only as a result of the rise of Muzura in the first half of the seventeenth century (cf. J. Afr. Hist. , 1982, ii). Newitt thereby challenged the more orthodox view that a formal Maravi state system existed already by the middle of the sixteenth century, if not earlier. It is argued here that the orthodox view is still valid in the case o…
Ritual healing and political acquiescence: The case of the Zionist Churches in southern Africa
Zionist Churches, especially those emphasising healing, exhibit a strikingly acquiescent attitude towards South African State politicies. This article examines the evidence as well as the explanations that have been put forward by social scientists and theologians. The particular focus of the article, however, is on medical systems as mechanisms of social control, a perspective that in this context has tended to be overlooked
The Zimba and the Lundu State in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
This article is a partial answer to M. D. D. Newitt, who proposed that settled Maravi states were established only as a result of the rise of Muzura in the first half of the seventeenth century (cf. J. Afr. Hist. , 1982, ii). Newitt thereby challenged the more orthodox view that a formal Maravi state system existed already by the middle of the sixteenth century, if not earlier. It is argued here that the orthodox view is still valid in the case o…
The Aids Pandemic, the Prophet Billy Chisupe, and the Democratization Process in Malawi
Cet article presente le cas de Billy Chisupe, fermier du sud Malawi qui fit un reve en 1994 dans lequel des esprits d'ancetres lui designaient un arbre dont l'ecorce etait censee contenir la guerison definitive du SIDA. Au bout de quelques mois des dizaines de milliers de personnes se rendaient chez lui pour y recevoir ce medicament nomme «Mchape». Apres presentation de ce cas, l'A. propose une interpretation de ses images sous-jacentes et conclu…
Myth and/or History: A Reply to Christopher Wrigley
Christopher Wrigley's objections, in ‘The River God’, to my historical interpretation of some Mbona stories do not differ substantially from those of Luc de Heusch against Vansina. In essence, the allegation is that the historical information I think can be derived from those stories finds little support in the historical facts insofar as they are known to us. Or, put somewhat more mildly, even if my historical interpretation of the Mbona stories…
Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915
Twins and Unilateral Figures in Central and Southern Africa: Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Symbolization of the Sacred
Unilateral figures may be said to constitute a quasi-universal mythological theme in view of the fact that in numerous cultures gods and spirits are being portrayed as anthropomorphic beings consisting of one side only. Less drastically, such beings may be depicted also as in possession of two sides, a human one and one modelled of beeswax, vegetal material, earth, stone, iron or suchlike. In creation stories we are sometimes told that the gods a…
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
Black and African Theology in Southern Africa: A Controversy Re-Examined
The above quotation from a prominent South African theologian seems eminently applicable to a country where the system of apartheid has given rise to theologies, which are either strongly supportive of or sharply antagonistic to the status quo. Indeed, at the present juncture one can hardly think of another country, where theology is so passionately engaged in as South Africa. The reason is that there are few places where oppression is so evident…
Religion and Misfortune. The Bacwezi Complex and Other. Spirit Cults of the Zinza of Northwestern Tanzania
Religion and Power Religion et pouvoir: Introduction Introduction
Masks of Malawi
Masks of Malawi
Religion, Nationalism and Economic Action: Critical Questions on Durkheim and Weber
Religion, Nationalism and Economic Action: Critical Questions on Durkheim and Weber
No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste.John Murray Cuddihy
Religion, Nationalism and Economic Action: Critical Questions on Durkheim and Weber
Shona Praise Poetry
Religion and Misfortune. The Bacwezi Complex and Other. Spirit Cults of the Zinza of Northwestern Tanzania
Religion and Power Religion et pouvoir: Introduction Introduction
Spirits and Power; An Analysis of Shona Cosmology
Ideological Confrontation and the Manipulation of Oral History: A Zambesian Case
Ever since Malinowski formulated his concept of myths as charters, there has been a tendency among anthropologists to regard origin myths more or less as post factum constructs designed to legitimize existing privileges and positions. A classic example of this pragmatist view is Leach's study of political systems in highland Burma, in which he attempts to demonstrate that origin myths change with clocklike regularity in response to shifts in the …
The Zimba and the Lundu State in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
This article is a partial answer to M. D. D. Newitt, who proposed that settled Maravi states were established only as a result of the rise of Muzura in the first half of the seventeenth century (cf. J. Afr. Hist. , 1982, ii). Newitt thereby challenged the more orthodox view that a formal Maravi state system existed already by the middle of the sixteenth century, if not earlier. It is argued here that the orthodox view is still valid in the case o…
Religion and development: Towards an integrated approach
Myth and/or History: A Reply to Christopher Wrigley
Christopher Wrigley's objections, in ‘The River God’, to my historical interpretation of some Mbona stories do not differ substantially from those of Luc de Heusch against Vansina. In essence, the allegation is that the historical information I think can be derived from those stories finds little support in the historical facts insofar as they are known to us. Or, put somewhat more mildly, even if my historical interpretation of the Mbona stories…
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
Black and African Theology in Southern Africa: A Controversy Re-Examined
The above quotation from a prominent South African theologian seems eminently applicable to a country where the system of apartheid has given rise to theologies, which are either strongly supportive of or sharply antagonistic to the status quo. Indeed, at the present juncture one can hardly think of another country, where theology is so passionately engaged in as South Africa. The reason is that there are few places where oppression is so evident…
Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915
Folk Christology in Africa: The Dialectics of the Nganga Paradigm
Moment of Encounter
The Missionary and the Diviner. Contending Theologies of Christian and African Religions
Through a series of conversations, a Christian missionary and an African diviner challenge and compare one another's views on fundamental theological questions: the meaning of God; family and community; sickness and healing; death and the afterlife; good and evil. Their discussions tellingly reveal both the vitality of traditional African religions and Christianity's ethnocentrism when faced with certain basic issues in Africa. In a larger sense,…
A Reader in African Christian Theology
Religion and Development: Towards an Integrated Approach
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Igor Kopytoff, ed
Twins and Unilateral Figures in Central and Southern Africa: Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Symbolization of the Sacred
Unilateral figures may be said to constitute a quasi-universal mythological theme in view of the fact that in numerous cultures gods and spirits are being portrayed as anthropomorphic beings consisting of one side only. Less drastically, such beings may be depicted also as in possession of two sides, a human one and one modelled of beeswax, vegetal material, earth, stone, iron or suchlike. In creation stories we are sometimes told that the gods a…
Ritual healing and political acquiescence: The case of the Zionist Churches in southern Africa
Zionist Churches, especially those emphasising healing, exhibit a strikingly acquiescent attitude towards South African State politicies. This article examines the evidence as well as the explanations that have been put forward by social scientists and theologians. The particular focus of the article, however, is on medical systems as mechanisms of social control, a perspective that in this context has tended to be overlooked
Of Revelation and Revolution. Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa, Vol. 1
Sociology (26 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Political science (17 works) · Religious studies (16 works) · History (14 works) · History of religions (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · Anthropology of religion (12 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (10 works)