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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... called " mixed - race " people who refused Christianity , pose the question of what the costs might be of succumbing to the seduction of bio- graphical narrative . I will return throughout this book to these issues and events . In a ...
... called " mixed - race " people who refused Christianity , pose the question of what the costs might be of succumbing to the seduction of bio- graphical narrative . I will return throughout this book to these issues and events . In a ...
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... called themselves ) lost influence at the colonial centre , even as Christianity and civiliza- tion became ever more bound up in the popular imagination with colo- nialism itself . The shifting role of missionaries in the British ...
... called themselves ) lost influence at the colonial centre , even as Christianity and civiliza- tion became ever more bound up in the popular imagination with colo- nialism itself . The shifting role of missionaries in the British ...
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... called white community under the voc defined itself as " Christian , " and individuals often justified racial sub- ordination and forced labour in the name of religious difference . The ( often extramarital ) children of white fathers ...
... called white community under the voc defined itself as " Christian , " and individuals often justified racial sub- ordination and forced labour in the name of religious difference . The ( often extramarital ) children of white fathers ...
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... called for a reintegration of Chris- tianity into the " mainstream " of South African historiography - as indeed have I.12 This is not the place to remake that case in detail , but the concerns of all these writers have influenced what ...
... called for a reintegration of Chris- tianity into the " mainstream " of South African historiography - as indeed have I.12 This is not the place to remake that case in detail , but the concerns of all these writers have influenced what ...
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... called " national " history . It might rather be seen as a product of the intersection of several " local " histories and of global interaction that cut constantly through the local in unexpected ways . One of these " local " histories ...
... called " national " history . It might rather be seen as a product of the intersection of several " local " histories and of global interaction that cut constantly through the local in unexpected ways . One of these " local " histories ...
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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Términos y frases comunes
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Religion Versus Empire?: British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas ... Andrew Porter Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Feminism and Empire: Women Activists in Imperial Britain, 1790-1865 Clare Midgley Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |