TY - BOOK ID - 77946225 TI - Tonga religious life in the twentieth century PY - 2006 SN - 128087564X 9982240587 9786613716958 9982240579 9982240595 9789982240598 9789982240574 9982240455 9789982240451 9982241370 PB - Lusaka, Zambia Bookworld Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology KW - Tonga (Zambezi people) KW - Gwembe (African people) KW - Plateau Tonga (African people) KW - Toka (African people) KW - Tonga (Zambesi people) KW - Tonga (Zambian people) KW - Tonka (African people) KW - Valley Tonga (African people) KW - Bantu-speaking peoples KW - Social life and customs. KW - Religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77946225 AB - The religious life of the Tonga-speaking peoples of southern Zambia is examined over the last century, in the sense of how they have thought about the nature of their world, the meaning of their own lives, and the sources of good and evil in which their cosmology and society have been transformed. The twelve chapters cover Time, Space and Language; Basic Themes, Tonga Religious Vocabulary and its Referents; the Vocabulary of Shrines and Substance; Homestead and Bush; Ritual Communities and Actors; Rituals of the Life Course; Death and its Rituals; Evil and Witchcraft; and Christianity and Tong ER -