The Ovimbundu Under Two Sovereignties by Adrian C. Edwards

Author:Adrian C. Edwards [Edwards, Adrian C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780429957277
Goodreads: 39815095
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

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1 Childs, p. 66.

2 G. M. Childs, International Review of Missions, April 1958.

3 For the history of Congregationalism see E. Troelsch, The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches, London, 1931, Vol. II, p. 661–6.

4 These involve drumming and an open invitation to anybody who wants to turn up. The idea is to persuade the tormenting spirit to pass into a small animal or inanimate object. The minor exorcism (oku likutilila) also involves sending the spirit into an inanimate object, but without drumming or the headshaking by the patient which is believed to mark the arrival of the spirit and his acceptance of the offering.

5 Childs, loc. cit. Personal information.

6 Actually responsibility for appointing superiors of missions largely belongs to the superior of the Nova Lisboa district of the Congregação do Espirito Santo.

7 For Umbundu names, see Elizabeth Ennis, African Studies (Johannesburg) March 1945.

8 In Gumba the chief and government headman were pagan. There are government-recognized Protestant chiefs elsewhere in Umbundu country.

9 In some parts of Angola the Catholic catechists are not automatically granted exemption but have to have obtained certain other qualifications, e.g. a certain degree of literacy.

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