God, People and Power in Malawi
Democratization in Theological Perspective
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Serie Luviri Reprints
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Volume 4
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Kenneth R. Ross, parish minister at Netherlorn in Argyll and Hon Fellow of the University of Edinburgh, is Chair of the Scotland Malawi Partnership. From 1988 to 1998 he lived, with his family, in Zomba where he served as Professor of Theology at the University of Malawi and as a minister of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP). The contributors are all drawn from the University of Malawi Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Kenneth Ross has written on “The Transformation of Power in Malawi 1992-94: the Role of the Christian Churches” and “A Practical Theology of Power for the New Malawi”; Felix Chingota on “The Use of the Bible in Social Transformation”; Isabel Apawo Phiri on “Marching, Suspended and Stoned: Christian Women in Malawi 1995”; James Tengatenga on “Young People: Participation or Alienation? An Anglican Case”; J.C. Chankanza and Hilary Mijoga on “Muslim Perspectives on Power”; Hilary Mijoga on “Christian Experience in Malawi Prisons”; and Klaus Fiedler on “Power at the Receiving End: the Jehova’s Witnesses’ Experience in One-Party Malawi” and “Even in the Church the Exercise of Power is Accountable to God”.
