Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions, and the Contest for Christianity in the Caoe Colony and Britain, 1799-1853McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2002 - 499 páginas In Blood Ground Elizabeth Elbourne looks at the relationship between the Khoekhoe, the British empire, and the London Missionary Society in the early nineteenth century, a time of intense conflict in which different groups competed to mobilize Christianity for their own political ends. She explores the social history of the early missionary movement as well the political impact of British evangelicals, arguing that religious change in southern Africa can only be understood in the material context of ethnic conflict and bitter struggles over land and labour. In doing so she reintegrates the history of religion into the mainstream historical narrative of South Africa, offering a view of Christianity not as a monolithic system but as a language subject to interpretation and highly politicized conflicts over meaning. |
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... Nonetheless , these vignettes of the beginning and ending of Read's life in southern Africa might serve to frame the chronological sweep of this study of Christianity and empire , of Khoekhoe groups at the Cape and the LMS between the ...
... Nonetheless , these vignettes of the beginning and ending of Read's life in southern Africa might serve to frame the chronological sweep of this study of Christianity and empire , of Khoekhoe groups at the Cape and the LMS between the ...
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... Nonetheless , there was more controversy than many historians allow over exactly what type of Protestantism might represent the nation . The chosen nation proved a slippery concept in practice . Evangelicals , especially nonconformist ...
... Nonetheless , there was more controversy than many historians allow over exactly what type of Protestantism might represent the nation . The chosen nation proved a slippery concept in practice . Evangelicals , especially nonconformist ...
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... Nonetheless , by the latter part of the nineteenth century , missions had come to be seen by many in Britain as emblematic of some larger national imperial project . It was , however , in the early nineteenth cen- tury , at least in ...
... Nonetheless , by the latter part of the nineteenth century , missions had come to be seen by many in Britain as emblematic of some larger national imperial project . It was , however , in the early nineteenth cen- tury , at least in ...
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... nonetheless cannot be fully understood in isolation . Finally , two caveats impose themselves on the broad points made above . The first is that I do not want to argue that " religious " language was void of meaning , nor that the ...
... nonetheless cannot be fully understood in isolation . Finally , two caveats impose themselves on the broad points made above . The first is that I do not want to argue that " religious " language was void of meaning , nor that the ...
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... Nonetheless , the following remains neces- sarily a partial account . Although I have gained greatly from discus- sions with many people descended from communities studied in this book , I would particularly have liked to have been able ...
... Nonetheless , the following remains neces- sarily a partial account . Although I have gained greatly from discus- sions with many people descended from communities studied in this book , I would particularly have liked to have been able ...
Contenido
Terms of Encounter GraaffReinet the Khoekhoe and the South African LMS at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century | 70 |
War Conversion and the Politics of Interpretation | 110 |
Khoisan Uses of Christianity | 154 |
The Rise and Fall of Bethelsdorp Radicalism under the British 180617 | 196 |
The Political Uses of Africa Remade The Passage of Ordinance 50 | 232 |
On Probation As Free Citizens Poverty and Politics in the 1830s | 258 |
Rethinking Liberalism | 292 |
Our Church for Ourselves | 310 |
Rebellion and Its Aftermath | 344 |
Conclusions? | 376 |
Notes | 380 |
Bibliography | 450 |
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Andries Anglican argued believed Bethelsdorp Britain British Buxton Calderwood Cape Colony Cape Town cattle Christianity church civilization claimed colonists Comaroff commando congregations conversion culture Cuyler Dag Verhaal debate despite Dutch early Eastern Cape economic eighteenth century Elphick England European evangelical example farm farmers Frontier Zone Genadendal Giliomee Graaff-Reinet Grahamstown Griqua groups Hankey Haweis heathen History Hottentots Ibid imperial inhabitants James Read James Read Jr John Philip Kat River settlement Kemp's Khoekhoe Khoisan Kicherer Kicherer's Kitchingman labour land landdrost letter living LMS directors LMS missionaries LMS-SA London London Missionary Society Malherbe Maqoma Mfengu millenarian ministers mission stations missionary activity Missionary Society Moffat Moravian nation Newton-King nineteenth century Nonetheless nonwhite Ordinance 50 Philipton political preaching Read's rebellion rebels religion religious Report Ross sionary slave Smit social South Africa southern Africa Stockenstrom Stoffels Theopolis tion Uitenhage University Press vagrancy Van der Kemp white settlers William Xhosa
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