The equality of believers
Subtitle: Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa
By: Richard Elphick
Series: Reconsiderations in southern African history; Reconsiderations in southern African history; Reconsiderations in southern African history
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780813932736; 9780813932798
Subjects: Race relations; Protestant churches; Missions; History
Description: "Providing historical context reaching back to 1652, Elphick concentrates on the era of industrialization, segregation, and the beginnings of apartheid in the first half of the twentieth century ... Elphick's book reveals the deep religious roots of racial ideas and initiatives that profoundly shaped the history of South Africa."--Jacket flap
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the equality of believers; title: The missionaries, their converts, and their enemies; title: The missionaries: from egalitarianism to paternalism; title: The Africans: embracing the gospel of equality; title: The Dutch settlers: confining the gospel of equality; title: The political missionaries: "our religion must embody itself in action"; title: The missionary critique of the African: witchcraft, marriage and sexuality; title: The revolt of the Black clergy: "we can't be brothers"; title: The benevolent empire and the social gospel; title: The "native question" and the benevolent empire; title: A Christian coalition of paternal elites; title: The social gospel: the ideology of the benevolent empire; title: High point of the Christian alliance: a South African Locarno; title: The enemies of the benevolent empire: gelykstelling condemned; title: The parting of the ways; title: A special education for Africans?; title: The abolition of the Cape franchise: a "door of citizenship" closed; title: The evangelical invention of apartheid; title: Neo-Calvinism: a world-view for a missionary volk; title: The stagnation of the social gospel; title: The abolition of the mission schools: a second "door of citizenship" closed; title: A divided missionary impulse and its political heirs.