Entry Personal Name

Number of records used in: 5

001 - CONTROL NUMBER

• control field: 3552

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

• control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

• control field: 20200604172510.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

• fixed length control field: 800403n| azannaabn |a aaa

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: n 50010247

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

• System control number: (OCoLC)oca00045758

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Description conventions: rda
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: Uk
• Modifying agency: IEN
• Modifying agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: IEN

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

• Birth date: 1931-11-30
• Death date: 2019-10-05
• Source of date scheme: edtf

053 #0 - LC CLASSIFICATION NUMBER

• Classification number element--single number or beginning number of span: PL8351.9.M3

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Mbiti, John S.

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

• Place of death: Burgdorf (Switzerland)
• Associated country: Kenya
• Associated country: Switzerland
• Place of residence/headquarters: Nairobi (Kenya)
• Other associated place: Great Britain
• Other associated place: United States
• Source of term: naf

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

• Field of activity: Christianity
• Field of activity: Christianity and culture
• Field of activity: Africa--Religion
• Field of activity: Theology
• Field of activity: Bible--Translating
• Field of activity: Kamba language
• Source of term: lcsh

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Universität Bern
• Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Ecumenical Institute Bossey
• Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: University of Cambridge
• Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Makerere University College
• Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Barrington College
• Source of term: naf

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Theologians
• Occupation: Religious educators
• Occupation: Clergy
• Occupation: Priests
• Occupation: Translators
• Source of term: lcsh

375 ## - GENDER

• Gender: Males
• Source of term: lcdgt

377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE

• Language code: eng
• Language code: kam

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Mbiti, John

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Mbiti, John Samuel

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: His English-Kamba vocabulary, 1959.

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: BL AL recd. 27th Oct. 1988
• Information found: (John Samuel Mbiti, born 30th Nov. 1931)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02
• Information found: (b. 1931; Rev., B.A., A.B., Th.B.)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: New York Times, John Mbiti, 87 dies; punctured myths about African religions, Oct. 24, 2019, viewed October 26, 2019
• Information found: (John Mbiti, a Christian theologian from Kenya, died Oct. 5 at a nursing home in Burgdorf, Switzerland, age 87; he disputed characterizations of African religions as anti-Christian at best and practiced by savages at worst, saying they were as deeply rooted and as legitimate as Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism; criticized by Okot p'Bitek and others for casting his arguments in intellectual terms established by the West; John Samuel Mbiti, born Nov. 30, 1931, in Mulango, Kenya; studied at University College of Makerere in Kampala, Uganda, in 1953; received bachelor's degree in theology from Barrington College, Rhode Island; taught briefly in Kenya and Britain; earned Ph.D. in theology at Cambridge University, where he met his future wife, Verena Siegenthaler; ordained as an Anglican priest by the Church of England; served as a parish priest in England before returning to Makerere in 1964 as a teacher of traditional African religions; his lack of knowledge about the subject led him to field work, resulting in publication of African Religions and Philosophy; taught at Makerere until 1974, when he was hired as director of the World Council of Churches Bossey Ecumenical Institute, Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland; became known for organizing conferences on intercultural theology; left the council in the early 1980s and was parish minister in Burgdorf for 15 years; also taught theology at the University of Bern 1983-2003; in 2014 he completed translation of the New Testament from the original Greek into his local language, Kamba)

942 ## - KOHA INTERNAL USE

• Koha auth type: PERSO_NAME