The equality of believers: protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa
Introduction: the equality of believers -- The missionaries, their converts, and their enemies -- The missionaries: from egalitarianism to paternalism -- The Africans: embracing the gospel of equality -- The Dutch settlers: confining the gospel of equality -- The political missionaries: "our re...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville [u.a]
University of Virginia Press
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Series/Journal: | Reconsiderations in southern African history
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Protestant Church
/ Mission
/ Apartheid
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| Further subjects: | B
South Africa
Race relations
History
B Protestant Churches Missions (South Africa) History B Race Relations Religious aspects Protestant churches |
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| Summary: | Introduction: the equality of believers -- The missionaries, their converts, and their enemies -- The missionaries: from egalitarianism to paternalism -- The Africans: embracing the gospel of equality -- The Dutch settlers: confining the gospel of equality -- The political missionaries: "our religion must embody itself in action" -- The missionary critique of the African: witchcraft, marriage and sexuality -- The revolt of the Black clergy: "we can't be brothers" -- The benevolent empire and the social gospel -- The "native question" and the benevolent empire -- A Christian coalition of paternal elites -- The social gospel: the ideology of the benevolent empire -- High point of the Christian alliance: a South African Locarno -- The enemies of the benevolent empire: gelykstelling condemned -- The parting of the ways -- A special education for Africans? -- The abolition of the Cape franchise: a "door of citizenship" closed -- The evangelical invention of apartheid -- Neo-Calvinism: a world-view for a missionary volk -- The stagnation of the social gospel -- The abolition of the mission schools: a second "door of citizenship" closed -- A divided missionary impulse and its political heirs |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-416) and index |
| ISBN: | 0813932734 |