Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Towards a theory of religious change in Central Africa 2 Possession and mediumship in Zambia: towards a comparative approach 3 Explorations in the history and sociology of territorial cults in Zambia 4 Religious change and the problem of evil in western Zambia 5 Regional and non-regional cults of affliction in western Zambia 6 Ritual, class and urban-rural relations 7 Cults of affliction in town, and the articulation of modes of Production 8 Religious innovation and political conflict in Zambia: the Lumpa rising

About the Author

Wim M.J. van Binsbergen