The Missionary and the Rainmaker

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" The Missionary and the Rainmaker "
Brian Stanley

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083403
Doc. No	:	LA127032
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02702003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Brian Stanley
Title & Author	:	The Missionary and the Rainmaker [Article]\ Brian Stanley
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	27/2-3
Page No	:	145–162
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Bakwena
Descriptor	:	David Livingstone
Descriptor	:	faiseur de pluie
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	irrigation
Descriptor	:	medicine
Descriptor	:	médicine
Descriptor	:	rainmaking
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Sechele
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02702003‬