The Farmerfield mission
Subtitle: a Christian community in South Africa, 1838-2008
By: Fiona Vernal
Publisher: Oxford UP
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780199843404
Subjects: Wesleyan Methodist Church; History; Missions; Church history
Description: This text explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Genealogies: the evangelical revival and pioneer mission work in the Cape Colony, 1799-1834; title: Pioneer models of Methodist missionary enterprise: the chain of stations; title: Bringing the chain of missions back to the Eastern Cape: a novel turn in Methodist missions; title: "A select class of natives:" economic and social visions of the first fifty years of Farmerfield; title: "Incipient civilization," and "nominal" Christianity: calibrating African Christianity at Farmerfield; title: The review of 1884: Farmerfield at a crossroad; title: Revamping the mission: reincarnations of Farmerfield, 1884-1962, 313; title: Becoming a black spot: the removal of 1962; title: Reclaiming and resettling Farmerfield; title: Conclusion.