The equality of believers :Protestan...
Elphick, Richard.

 

  • The equality of believers :Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 276.8
    Title/Author: The equality of believers : : Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa // Richard Elphick.
    Author: Elphick, Richard.
    Published: Charlottesville : : University of Virginia Press,, 2012.
    Description: 1 online resource (448 p.).
    Subject: Protestant churches - Missions - South Africa
    Subject: Race relations - Religious aspects
    Subject: South Africa - Politics and government - 1994-
    ISBN: 9780813932798 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0813932793 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780813932736 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 0813932734 (hbk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: 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 revoltof 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 educationfor Africans? -- The abolition of the Cape franchise: a "door of citizenship" closed -- The evangelical invention of apartheid -- Neo-Calvinism: aworld-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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