New books published!

Academic Research and Writing in Theology and Religious Studies

For all who want to study theology on postgraduate level, there is a guide for academic writing and research. But not only students at the University can profit, also everyone who is interested is invited to have a closer look on this new book.

Conflicted Power in Malawian Christianity...

... is now available local aswell! 

News!

We have to apologize again for the long break, but now we start again with a lot of news.

Conflicted Power in Malawian Christianity. Essays Missionary and Evangelical from Malawi

In this book you can find a collection of 20 articles written by Klaus Fiedler.

CONTENTS
1 For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings
2 The Moralities of Condom Use. Theological Considerations
3 Compulsory HIV Testing. A Christian Imperative
4 The Cross and the Resurrection
5 The "Smaller" Churches and Big Government
6 Even in Church the Exercise of Power is Accountable to God
7 Power at the Receiving End: The Jehovah's Witnesses' Experience in One Party Malawi
8 Christian Missions and Western Colonialism: Soulmates or Antagonists?
9 Gender Equality in the New Testament: The Case of St Paul
10 The Process of Religious Diversification in Malawi: A Reflection on Method and a First Attempt at a Synthesis
11 Islamization in Malawi – Perceptions and Reality
12 Faith Missions: 125 Years
13 Aspects of the Early History of the Bible School Movement
14 Shifts in Eschatology - Shifts in Missiology
15 The Post-Classical Missions and Churches in Africa - Identity and Challenge to Missiological Research
16 "A Revival Disregarded and Disliked"
17 The Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements in Malawi in Cultural Perspective
18 Africa's Evangelical Turn
19 A Community of Teaching/Learning, Research and Publishing
20 Dictionary entries and book reviews 

Expression and Literature: The Tumbuka Ideophone

The study of the Tumbuka language has been neglected for some time. This book by William Mvalo, at that time manager of the Mzuzu University Trust Fund, offers a comprehensive study of one aspect: The ideophone.

Polygamy in Northern Malawi

The early missionaries brought Christianity from the monogamous West to the polygamous societies of Africa. Were the missionaries right in demanding that converts dismiss all but one wife? Was this the demand of the Christian faith or of Western civilization? And were the converts right to dismiss their wives though they had married them according to the laws of the land? And who asked the children if they wanted their mothers to be dismissed and may or may not be married to another man?

     This book is the first Mzuni book based on a PhD from Mzuzu University – more will follow.