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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... debates , and introductions . I want to begin , however , with the complexity , even impenetrability , of a single person . It seems symbolically appropriate that James Read began his South African career with expectation in a climate ...
... debates , and introductions . I want to begin , however , with the complexity , even impenetrability , of a single person . It seems symbolically appropriate that James Read began his South African career with expectation in a climate ...
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... debates over interpretation within the Protestant fold had a profound importance in both regions . The communities brought into contact through the colonial encounter , whether Dutch - speaking farmers in frontier districts , the ...
... debates over interpretation within the Protestant fold had a profound importance in both regions . The communities brought into contact through the colonial encounter , whether Dutch - speaking farmers in frontier districts , the ...
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... debates raged in both Britain and South Africa about the meaning of " civilization " and its political implications . In part through this process , missions legitimized and domesticated empire for many in Britain . Imperialism might be ...
... debates raged in both Britain and South Africa about the meaning of " civilization " and its political implications . In part through this process , missions legitimized and domesticated empire for many in Britain . Imperialism might be ...
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... debates with which we began had come full circle . I conclude with some specu- lations about conversion , nationalism , and the uses of Christianity . POLITICS AND INTERPRETATION : SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS I see this book as part of ...
... debates with which we began had come full circle . I conclude with some specu- lations about conversion , nationalism , and the uses of Christianity . POLITICS AND INTERPRETATION : SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS I see this book as part of ...
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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 |
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