Conversion and Jesuit schooling in Zambia / / by Brendan P. Carmody.

• Superior document: Studies in Christian mission, volume 4
• VerfasserIn: Carmody, Brendan Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1992.
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Christian mission ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (211 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; AIMS, PERSPECTIVES, AND ISSUES /; TONGALAND: BEFORE THE MISSIONARIES ARRIVED /; JESUIT SCHOOLS IN TONGALAND: 1905-1940 /; JESUIT SCHOOLS IN TONGALAND: 1940-1964 /; JESUIT SCHOOLS IN TONGALAND: 1964-1978 /; CONCLUSION /; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY /; INDEX /; STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN MISSION /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004319859
• ISSN: 0924-9389
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Brendan P. Carmody.

This is a socio-historical study of schooling at Chikuni, a Jesuit mission station in Southern Zambia. It includes an examination of the dynamic processes operative at the mission over a 75 year period. During these years, the Jesuits interacted with successive generations of students and converts and with the representatives of successive political regimes, all of which were secular but each willing to use the mission as a means to its own ends. For many years Chikuni was the major representative of the Catholic church in southern Zambia. The emergence of a Catholic community is of its making. As its educational role expanded it also helped to form many who became leaders in post-independence Zambia. Though the Jesuits had not planned a political revolution, unwittingly they helped to bring one about. While the study identifies some of the difficulties connected with running a denominational school in present day Zambia, it argues for a more pivotal positioning of conversion as a socio-personal religious phenomenon in the curriculum if the mission school is to continue to be an effective agent of transformation.