The equality of believers
Elphick, Richard.
The equality of believers Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa / [electronic resource] : Richard Elphick. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (448 p.) - Reconsiderations in southern African history . - Reconsiderations in southern African history. Reconsiderations in southern African history. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9780813932798 0813932793
Protestant churches--Missions--History.--South Africa
Race relations--Religious aspects--Protestant churches.
South Africa--Race relations--History.
Electronic books.
BR1450 / .E47 2012
276.8
The equality of believers Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa / [electronic resource] : Richard Elphick. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (448 p.) - Reconsiderations in southern African history . - Reconsiderations in southern African history. Reconsiderations in southern African history. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9780813932798 0813932793
Protestant churches--Missions--History.--South Africa
Race relations--Religious aspects--Protestant churches.
South Africa--Race relations--History.
Electronic books.
BR1450 / .E47 2012
276.8