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Title:The Development of Islam in Malawi and the Response of the Christian Churches: 1940-1986
Author:Bone, David S.
Year:1987
Periodical:Bulletin on Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa
Volume:5
Issue:4
Period:October
Pages:7-24
Language:English
Geographic term:Malawi
Subjects:Church
Islam
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
Muslim-Christian relations
Abstract:For approximately the four decades from 1940 to 1980, Islam and Christianity in Malawi developed in a relation of uneasy coexistence, the Muslims having opted for a sort of traditional conservatism while Christianity generally remained closely identified with Westernization. In the 1980s, this situation changed dramatically. The rapid development of a visible and assertive Islam, funded externally and using methods until recently the prerogative of the Christian churches, has once again made the latter aware of the active presence of Islam. Their response has, as yet, been rather unfocused, although indications are that surprise, resentment, alarm and suspicion have the upperhand. Notes, ref.
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