The Missionary and the Rainmaker
The dialogue between the missionary and the rainmaker found in various forms in David Livingstone’s writings needs to be interpreted against the background of Livingstone’s relationship with the Bakwena during the late 1840s, a time of severe drought and one in which chief Sechele’s repudiation of h...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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Social sciences and missions
Año: 2014, Volumen: 27, Número: 2/3, Páginas: 145-162 |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
David Livingstone
Bakwena
Sechele
rainmaking
irrigation
medicine
B David Livingstone Bakwena Sechele faiseur de pluie irrigation médicine |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Publisher) |
| Sumario: | The dialogue between the missionary and the rainmaker found in various forms in David Livingstone’s writings needs to be interpreted against the background of Livingstone’s relationship with the Bakwena during the late 1840s, a time of severe drought and one in which chief Sechele’s repudiation of his rainmaking functions after his baptism threatened the displeasure of the ancestors. Livingstone’s recording of the dialogue reveals his indebtedness to the moral philosophy of the Scottish thinker, Thomas Dick, but also suggests that Livingstone remained fascinated by the very African cosmology that his Christian faith and Scottish scientism led him to repudiate. |
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| Descripción Física: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
| Obras secundarias: | In: Social sciences and missions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748945-02702003 |