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 |