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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elphick, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:Reconsiderations in southern African history.
Subjects:
Protestant churches > Missions > South Africa > History.
Race relations > Religious aspects > Protestant churches.
South Africa > Race relations > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.