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SECULAR AND SACRED AT CHIKUNI: 1905-1940 BY BRENDAN CARMODY (University of Zambia) INTRODUCTION Writers have spoken of mission stations in Africa both as cultural melting-pots and oases.' Such imagery generally implied that mis- sionaries were often agents of social change as much by example as by explicit teaching or preaching. By their presence they com- municated values and skills, especially where Africans attended their boarding schools. This article will describe the setting of a Jesuit mission, Chikuni, in southern Zambia, emphasizing the socio-cultural backgrounds of the missionaries in order to show how the Jesuits at Chikuni com- municated Catholic values. By doing so, I do not wish to imply that the explicit teaching of the missionaries was unimportant. Rather, I shall argue that, at the beginning, material benefits constituted the main attraction to the mission. However, once someone had become part of the mission school, farm, or hospital, the day-to-day presence of the missionaries proved to be the main source of deeper commitment to the Christian way of life. The present article will propose that, while the local people were inspired by the example of the Chikuni missionaries, the Jesuits' secular activities and their lifestyles created a paradoxical
Journal of Religion in Africa – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1991
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