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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789312703321

Autore

Vernal Fiona

Titolo

The Farmerfield mission : a Christian community in South Africa, 1838-2008 / / Fiona Vernal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012

ISBN

0-19-999630-X

0-19-984341-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Disciplina

266.716875

Soggetti

Methodism

Eastern Cape (South Africa) History

Eastern Cape (South Africa) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-349) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Genealogies: the evangelical revival, methodism, and pioneer mission work in the Cape Colony, 1790s-1820s -- Pioneer models of Methodist missionary enterprise: the chain of missions and the Albany Settlement, 1820-1838 -- Bringing the chain of missions back to the Eastern Cape: a novel turn in Methodist missions -- "A selected class of natives:" economic visions and realities of the first fifty years of the Farmerfield Mission Station -- "'Incipient civilization" and "nominal" Christianity?": the African Christian experience at Farmerfield, 1838-1884 -- The review of 1884: Farmerfield at a crossroads -- Revamping the mission: reincarnations of Farmerfield, 1884-1962 -- Becoming a "black spot": the removal of 1962 -- Reclaiming and resettling Farmerfield -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This text explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.