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

• Autore: Vernal Fiona
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Disciplina: 266.716875
• Soggetto topico: Methodism
• Soggetto geografico: Eastern Cape (South Africa) History; Eastern Cape (South Africa) Church history
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Farmerfield mission
• ISBN: 0-19-999630-X; 0-19-984341-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970286203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II