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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Luviri reprints ; no. 4
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Luviri reprints ; no. 4.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Luviri Reprints -- Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Transformation of Power in Malawi 1992-94: the Role of the Christian Churches -- The Historical Background -- The Pastoral Letter of 1992 -- The Public Affairs Committee -- The Church as Power-Broker -- 2. The Use of the Bible in Social Transformation -- Introduction -- The Malawian Situation before the Referendum -- The Bible and the Movement for Change -- Faith and Voting -- Perspectives on Power -- Conclusion |
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3. Marching, Suspended and Stoned: Christian Women in Malawi 1995 -- Introduction -- Women Issues in the Blantyre Synod -- Violence Against Women at Chancellor College -- Analysis -- 4. Young People: Participation or Alienation? An Anglican Case -- Introduction -- The Role of Young People in Church, Society and Politics -- The Young People's Sense of Participation -- Reasons for Treatment Received -- The Young People's Sense of their own Power -- Young People's Understanding of Power and the Powerful -- Conclusion -- Postcript -- 5. Muslim Perspectives on Power -- Introduction: Islam in Malawi |
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The Research Methodology -- Islam and the Exercise of Power in Malawi -- Conclusions -- 6. Power at the Receiving End: The Jehova's Witnesses' Experience in One Party Malawi -- The Refusal to Constitute Power -- Peaks and Valleys of Persecution: 1964, 1967, 1972 -- Lands of Refuge -- International Power -- The Character of the Persecution -- The Role of State Organs -- The Role of the Christians -- Those who Helped -- Responsibility -- Healing the Nation -- 7. Christian Experience in Malawi Prisons -- Introduction -- The Sample -- The Bible: the Most Important Means of Grace |
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Relationship between Prisoners and their Guards -- The Effect of Imprisonment -- A ""Bird's Eye View"" of Christian Experience in Prison -- Conclusion -- 8. Even in Church the Exercise of Power is Accountable to God -- State Power -- Church Power -- Counter Power -- Sacraments are to Organize Power -- Christian Pluralism: a Check on Power -- Revival as Counter Power -- Effective Power to Redeem -- 9. A Practical Theology of Power for the New Malawi -- Midwives of Democracy -- Without Remembrance, No Liberation -- Confronting the Spectre of Regionalism -- A Re-definition of Politics |
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The Drive for Popular Participation -- Countering Polarization in Society -- The Life of the Church and Malawi's Democratisation -- Select Bibliography -- Back cover |
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| Subject |
Christianity and politics -- Malawi.
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Christianity and politics. |
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Malawi. |
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Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Malawi -- Church history.
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Church history. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Church history.
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| Added Author |
Ross, Kenneth R., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9996066045 9789996066047 (OCoLC)1043414659 |
| ISBN |
9789996066054 (electronic book) |
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9996066053 (electronic book) |
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9996066045 |
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9789996066047 |
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