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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462188103321

Autore

Elphick Richard

Titolo

The equality of believers [[electronic resource] ] : Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa / / Richard Elphick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8139-3279-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Collana

Reconsiderations in southern African history

Disciplina

276.8

Soggetti

Race relations - Religious aspects - Protestant churches

Protestant churches - Missions - South Africa - History

Electronic books.

South Africa Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.