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Title:The Mutumwa Church of Peter Mulenga. Part One
Author:Dillon-Malone, Clive
Year:1985
Periodical:Journal of Religion in Africa
Volume:15
Issue:2
Pages:122-141
Language:English
Geographic term:Zambia
Subjects:African Independent Churches
faith healing
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1581252.pdf
Abstract:The Mutumwa Church of Peter Mulenga is one of a number of separately recognized churches in Zambia which identify themselves either as 'Mutumwa' or under some variant of the same. It is an expression of a far wider phenomenon of spirit possession and spirit healing as manifest in the prophet-healing churches both within and outside Zambia. Part I of this article discusses the background and religious conversion vision of Peter Mulenga in addition to the church's official interpretation of this vision, and examines the key spirit concepts in the Bemba traditional religious belief system, emphasizing the holistic understanding of illness vis-a-vis a philosophical dualism of forces for good and for evil. Part II examines the manner in which the Mutumwa Church of Peter Mulenga has both continued and reinterpreted the traditional Bemba belief system in favour of the biblical idiom. Notes, ref.
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