• The equality of believers : Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa
    Author: ElphickRichard,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Charlottesville
    Published: University of Virginia Press;
    Year of Publication: 2012
    Description: 1 online resource (448 p.).
    Series: Reconsiderations in southern African history
    Subject: Protestant churches - Missions - South Africa -
    Subject: Race relations - Religious aspects -
    Subject: South Africa - Race relations -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813932798/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9780813932798electronic bk.
    ISBN: 0813932793electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780813932736hbk.
    ISBN: 0813932734hbk.
    Content Note: 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 revoltof 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 educationfor Africans? -- The abolition of the Cape franchise: a "door of citizenship" closed -- The evangelical invention of apartheid -- Neo-Calvinism: aworld-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
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