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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reconsiderations in southern African history | Reconsiderations in southern African historyPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.Description: viii, 437 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813932736 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780813932798 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 276.8 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1450 .E47 2012
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-416) 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.

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