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The equality of believers: Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa

Author

Elphick, Richard

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University of Virginia Press

Publication Date

2012

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English

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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 worldview 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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Subjects

Afrique du Sud -- Relations raciales -- Histoire
Aspect religieux
Christianity
Electronic books
Églises protestantes
Églises protestantes -- Missions -- Afrique du Sud -- Histoire
General
Histoire
History
HISTORY -- General
Missions
Protestant churches
Protestant churches -- Missions
Protestant churches -- Missions -- South Africa -- History
Race relations
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Protestant churches
Relations raciales
Relations raciales -- Aspect religieux -- Églises protestantes
RELIGION
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History
Religious aspects
South Africa
South Africa -- Race relations -- History

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9780813932736
9780813932798

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