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7. See Howell, A (2001) for a full discussion on The religious itinerary ofa Ghanaian people.
8. We know from African Church history that the Church has been in Africa much longer than it has
been in the West. Sundkler and Steed (2000:7) point out that there is immense 'literature devoted to the
first thousand years of Church history in Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia and North Africa.' What began in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was the modem missionary movement which enabled people in
southern Africa to hear about Jesus Christ.
9. Department ofSurveys, Blantyre, 1996.
10. See Malawi population and housing census report, December 2000.
11. Mvera in Dowa was the fust station that the Dutch Reformed Church Mission built in 1889, while
Kongwe in Ntchisi district was the second station, built in 1894 (Pauw 1980:9-10).
12. Here again DRCM work was subsequently established (Pauw 1980:10).
13. Department ofSurveys, Blantyre, 1996.
14. Moreau uses 'spirits' to refer to both the spirits ofthe dead and other spiritual beings.
15. 'Obscene' (zolaula) is a Christian reaction, while the Chewa regard it as a 'sacred' language used
during the 'liminal' state.
16. For a full discussion see Turner, H W 1977. The primal religions of the world and their study in
Hayes, V (ed.) 1977. Australian essays in world religions (27-37) and Bediako, K 1995. Christianity in
Africa: The renewal ofa non-Western religion, (91-108).
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17. Mbiti lists spontaneous evangelization; the work by catechists, church ministers, teachers and preach­
ers; African missionaries among peoples of other languages; the African traditional religion; and the
Bible in the languages of the African people as the contribution ofthe Africans themselves in the spreading
ofthe gospel.
18. For a fuller discussion on the making of a European worldview and primal religion see part one of
Bediako, G 1997. Primal religion and the Bible.
19. Southern Baptists rank Sunday School and Bible Study as primary educative tools for evangelism and
spiritual maturity. They encourage their local congregations to make full use of these tools. Baptist Con-
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