“Except You Be Born of Water and the Spirit, You Cannot Enter into the Kingdom”

What is it about?

The role of rituals as forces for social change in Christian mission history can be over looked particularly where the rituals are adopted from a Western church. This article studies the performance - setting, characters, script and sounds - of an early Anglican baptism in Toro, Western Uganda. It shows how this ritual embedded new values and objectives in Toro. The article shows the importance of rituals in mission history.

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