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==Approach== | ==Approach== | ||
Lubwa Mission used literacy and intellectual agreement with the contents of the catechism as criteria for admission to church membership. New members were incorporated into the structure of the Mission as teachers, evangelists, catechists, or paid employees of the Mission. The converts were initially mainly young men, exhibiting a westernized style of life (use of language, food habits, clothing, house building, hygiene, child-rearing, relationship with their spouses).<ref>[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-development-of-Lubwa-Mission%2C-Chinsali%2C-Zambia%2C-Ipenburg/1c11dab1f9b7215d2e30b9ce9a3720e2dfaad0d9 The development of Lubwa Mission, Chinsali, Zambia, 1904-1967], 1991</ref> | Lubwa Mission used literacy and intellectual agreement with the contents of the catechism as criteria for admission to church membership. New members were incorporated into the structure of the Mission as teachers, evangelists, catechists, or paid employees of the Mission. The converts were initially mainly young men, exhibiting a westernized style of life (use of language, food habits, clothing, house building, hygiene, child-rearing, relationship with their spouses).<ref>[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-development-of-Lubwa-Mission%2C-Chinsali%2C-Zambia%2C-Ipenburg/1c11dab1f9b7215d2e30b9ce9a3720e2dfaad0d9 The development of Lubwa Mission, Chinsali, Zambia, 1904-1967], 1991</ref> | ||
==Politics== | |||
In the 1940s Lubwa missionaries came under criticism by young mission teachers, who established a Chinsali Branch of the [[Northern Rhodesia]] [[African National Congress]] at Lubwa. | |||
==Prominent people trained at Lubwa== | ==Prominent people trained at Lubwa== | ||
