03240nam 2200601Ia 450 991046218810332120200520144314.00-8139-3279-3(CKB)2670000000242220(OCoLC)812926410(CaPaEBR)ebrary10603431(SSID)ssj0000753209(PQKBManifestationID)11415247(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000753209(PQKBWorkID)10802260(PQKB)10626276(MiAaPQ)EBC3444065(MdBmJHUP)muse15157(Au-PeEL)EBL3444065(CaPaEBR)ebr10603431(OCoLC)932314954(EXLCZ)99267000000024222020111108d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe equality of believers[electronic resource] Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa /Richard ElphickCharlottesville University of Virginia Press20121 online resource (448 p.) Reconsiderations in southern African historyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-3273-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Reconsiderations in southern African history.Reconsiderations in southern African history.Race relationsReligious aspectsProtestant churchesProtestant churchesMissionsSouth AfricaHistorySouth AfricaRace relationsHistoryElectronic books.Race relationsReligious aspectsProtestant churches.Protestant churchesMissionsHistory.276.8Elphick Richard243368MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462188103321The equality of believers1999094UNINA