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The Road to Clarity

Part of the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781403977007

ISBN: 978-1-4039-7076-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 12, 2015

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Introduction

Keller, Eva

Pages: 1 –12

[In recent years, there has been an astonishing outbreak of new forms of Christianity in many parts of the world, in particular in Latin America, Africa, and Oceania. Millions of people have been leaving the mainline churches to join one of the numerous “evangelical,” “fundamentalist” or...
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People in Search of a Living

Keller, Eva

Pages: 15 –36

[This chapter serves two purposes. First, it introduces the places where the two Adventist congregations, with which this study is concerned, are located: the town of Maroantsetra, which is the center of a remote district in Madagascar, and Sahameloka, a village located some 25 km upriver to the...
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Christianity and Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar

Keller, Eva

Pages: 37 –57

[Christianity has played an important role in Madagascar for almost two centuries now. Indeed, it has been pointed out that the extent of the success of the Christian missions in Madagascar prior to European colonialization is quite unparalleled in continental Africa (Gow [n.d.]; also see Engelke...
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International and Local Structure of the Adventist Church

Keller, Eva

Pages: 58 –67

[Globally, the Seventh-day Adventist church is organized along several hierarchically related levels from, at the top, the General Conference, with headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland (USA), to, at the bottom, any local church anywhere in the world.1 Sahameloka and Silver Spring, for example,...
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Profiles

Keller, Eva

Pages: 68 –81

[The discussion in chapter 3 of the international and the local structure of the Seventh-day Adventist church has revealed Malagasy Adventists’ participatory approach to decision making as well as to the running of their church. The pronounced lack of hierarchy among church members including the...
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Bible Study

Keller, Eva

Pages: 85 –116

[The most notable Adventist activity in Maroantsetra and Sahameloka is Bible study. There is a very clear focus on Bible study as part of institutionalized Seventh-day Adventist church services, but the members of the church also study the Bible at home with their families throughout the week.]
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Knowledge of the Bible and Scientific Inquiry

Keller, Eva

Pages: 117 –135

[In chapter 5, I illustrated the eagerness with which the members of the Adventist church in Maroantsetra and Sahameloka engage in Bible study, both in church and at home. However, the Adventists are not only committed to Bible study; they also define what it means to be an Adventist in terms of...
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Text and Learning

Keller, Eva

Pages: 136 –156

[In chapters 5 and 6, I have discussed the Adventists’ emphasis on Bible study, knowledge of the Bible and comprehension of biblical text. In this chapter I will analyze how this focus on studying text relates to a much more general Malagasy approach toward writing and learning.]
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The Great Controversy

Keller, Eva

Pages: 157 –168

[Satan plays an incredibly important role for Seventh-day Adventists in Madagascar. Everything that happened in the past, that is happening at the moment and that will happen in the future is a manifestation of the struggle for power between God1 and Satan. In the Adventist literature, this fight...
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The Construction and Rejection of Ancestral Religion

Keller, Eva

Pages: 169 –178

[We have seen how Satan is omnipresent in the world of the local Adventists and how his influence is felt in numerous kinds of ways. However, in Madagascar, Satan’s favorite trick is to act in the guise of the ancestors. In order to realize what a drastic statement this is in the Malagasy...

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