Shifting Altar

Bonet Byton Kamwela

• Publisher: Luviri Press
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9789996091032
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

Bonet Byton Kamwela is an ordained minister in the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia in Northern Malawi. He holds an MA in Theology and Religious Studies from Mzuzu University, a BTh from Livingstonia University, and a Diploma in Theology from the University of Malawi. He is the author of "Married and No Sex anymore," "Friendship and Faith" and three Tumbuka books. He has served several congregations in the synod, currently at Vibangalala in Loudon Presbytery. He is married to Roselyne Mkwala and they are blessed with three children: Ambele, Tuntufye and Lughano. Religious change is a worldwide fact, often disliked, though protected by the principle of Religious Freedom. Enukweni is a small area in Northern Malawi, which can stand for many similar areas in Malawi and beyond, where religious change is largely between Christian denominations, but where there is also some movement between Christianity and Islam, both ways. The book tests the ideas that Christian unity does not promote mission and that Christian diversity is not a problem to be solved but an asset to be appreciated

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Half-title
• Copyright
• Title page
• Dedication
• Books by the same author
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• 1 | Introduction
• 2 | Historical Background of Religion in Enukweni
• 3 | Geographical Patterns of Religiosity in Enukweni
• 4 | The State of Real Diversification: Religious Change in Enukweni, 1980-2017
• 5 | Sacred Ledgers and Migration Metrics in Enukweni
• 6 | The Social Morphology of Religious Conversion
• 7 | Parachurch Movements and the Reconfiguration of Religious Authority
• 8 | Religious Diversification: An Overall Assessment
• 9 | Religious Unity
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back cover