The equality of believers [[electronic resource] ] : Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa / / Richard Elphick
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Elphick Richard
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| Titolo: |
The equality of believers [[electronic resource] ] : Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa / / Richard Elphick
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 276.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Race relations - Religious aspects - Protestant churches |
| Protestant churches - Missions - South Africa - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | South Africa Race relations History |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The equality of believers |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-3279-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785742503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Reconsiderations in southern African history.