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Jan Matthew Schoffeleers

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PhD Anthropology Leiden University
Masters Anthropology Leiden University
Bachelors Anthropology Leiden University

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According to Wikipedia, Jan Mathijs Schoffeleers , who published many of his works in English as Jan Matthew Schoffeleers or Matthew Schoffeleers was a Dutch missionary and member of the Montfort Fathers order who became an important figure in African research as an anthropologist of African religion, particularly that in Malawi, where he spent around 16 years, first as a missionary and then as a lecturer. He continued his academic career later as reader and professor in religious anthropology in the Netherlands, continuing to concentrate on African themes.

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Jan Matthew Schoffeleers's Published Works

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Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa (1983) (216)
Of Revelation and Revolution. Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa, Vol. 1 (1993) (138)
Ritual healing and political acquiescence: the case of the Zionist Churches in southern Africa (1991) (64)
Theoretical Explorations in African Religion (1984) (43)
The Aids Pandemic, the Prophet Billy Chisupe, and the Democratization Process in Malawi (1999) (30)
The Nyau societies: our present understanding (1976) (18)
Folk Christology in Africa: the Dialectics of the Nganga Paradigm (1989) (16)
Black and African Theology in Southern Africa: a Controversy Re-Examined (1988) (15)
Religion and development : towards an integrated approach (1988) (12)
Shona Praise Poetry (1981) (12)
The Zimba and the Lundu State in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (1987) (9)
Twins and Unilateral Figures in Central and Southern Africa: Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Symbolization of the Sacred (1991) (8)
Religion and misfortune : the Bacwezi complex and the other spirit cults of the Zinza of northwestern Tanzania (1982) (5)
Myth and/or History: a Reply to Christopher Wrigley (1988) (5)
A martyr cult as a reflection on changes in production: the case of the lower shire valley, 1590-1622 A.D (1978) (4)
Masks of Malawi (1972) (3)
Review article: peasants, mediums and Guerillas (1987) (2)
Moment of Encounter (1984) (2)
From Socialization to Personal Enterprise: A History of the Nomi Labor Societies in the Nsanje District of Malawi, c. 1891-1972 (1973) (2)
ACQUIESCENCE: THE CASE OF THE ZIONIST (1991) (2)
Religion and Power Religion et pouvoir (1985) (1)
Religion, Nationalism and Economic Action: Critical Questions on Durkheim and Weber. (1980) (1)
Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa@@@The Healer-Prophet in Afro-Christian Churches (1994) (1)
James W. Fernandez, Bwiti: an ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982, 731 pp., £63.20 hardback, £18.60 paperback. (1986) (1)
Ideological Confrontation and the Manipulation of Oral History: a Zambesian Case (1987) (1)
Religion, nationalism and economic action : critical questions on Durkheim and Weber (1980) (1)
Trade, warfare and social inequality: the case of the Lower Shire Valley of Malawi, 1590-1622 A.D (1980) (1)
SOUTHERN AFRICA: A CONTROVERSY RE-EXAMINED (2016) (0)
In Search of Truth and Justice: Confrontations between Church and State in Malawi, 1960-1994@@@Malawi's Muslims: Historical Perspectives (2002) (0)
Father Mariana's 1624 description of Lake Malawi and the identity of the Maravi emperor, Muzura (1992) (0)
LANE, James Eric, Moment of Encounter, New York / Berne, Peter Lang, 1984, 163 pp. S.Fr. 33-30, 0 8204 0090 4 (1990) (0)
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. IGOR KOPYTOFF, ed (1991) (0)
No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste.John Murray Cuddihy (1980) (0)
Chapter l Introduction : Theoretical explorations in African religion (2006) (0)
Protect Against Political Despotism: Mbona and the Sacred Pangolin (1999) (0)
PARRATT, John (ed.), A Reader in African Christian Theology, London, SPCK, 1987, xi, 178 pp., £6.50, 0 281 04308 6 (net edition), 0 281 04309 4 (non-net edition for Africa, Asia, S. Pacific, and Caribbean) (1990) (0)
Wyatt MacGaffey, Modern Kongo Prophets: religion in a plural society, African Systems of Thought Series. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983, £15.75/$22.50 hardback, £10.50/$15.00 paperback. (1988) (0)
KIRWEN, Michael C., The Missionary and the Diviner. Contending theologies of Christian and African Religions, Maryknoll, New York, Orbis Books, 1987, 134 pp., 0 88344 585 9 (1990) (0)
A Chronicle From Central Africa (1975) (0)

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