Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions, and the Contest for Christianity in the Caoe Colony and Britain, 1799-1853McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2002 - 499 pages In Blood Ground Elizabeth Elbourne looks at the relationship between the Khoekhoe, the British empire, and the London Missionary Society in the early nineteenth century, a time of intense conflict in which different groups competed to mobilize Christianity for their own political ends. She explores the social history of the early missionary movement as well the political impact of British evangelicals, arguing that religious change in southern Africa can only be understood in the material context of ethnic conflict and bitter struggles over land and labour. In doing so she reintegrates the history of religion into the mainstream historical narrative of South Africa, offering a view of Christianity not as a monolithic system but as a language subject to interpretation and highly politicized conflicts over meaning. |
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... Kat River Settlement 1829 Province of Queen Adelaide 1836-1837 Zuurveld 1779-1819 Map 3 Overlapping land claims : territorial divisions in the Eastern Cape , 1811-48 . O Groen Kop Post Retief Lt Winterberg Blakeway Farm Branders.
... Kat River Settlement 1829 Province of Queen Adelaide 1836-1837 Zuurveld 1779-1819 Map 3 Overlapping land claims : territorial divisions in the Eastern Cape , 1811-48 . O Groen Kop Post Retief Lt Winterberg Blakeway Farm Branders.
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... River Elands Post Elands River Gaika's Kop Blinkwater Birklands 0 10 Map 4 The Kat River settlement KM A Tyume River Blood Ground " Cain said to his brother Abel ,. Eckhardt's Post Groepes River Warden's Post * Tyhume Blinkwaters ...
... River Elands Post Elands River Gaika's Kop Blinkwater Birklands 0 10 Map 4 The Kat River settlement KM A Tyume River Blood Ground " Cain said to his brother Abel ,. Eckhardt's Post Groepes River Warden's Post * Tyhume Blinkwaters ...
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... Kat River settlement , would ride out with his son and a small company of Khoekhoe elders to a rebel camp , once again in a time of frontier war- fare . The group had come to parlay with the enraged young men of the settlement , to ...
... Kat River settlement , would ride out with his son and a small company of Khoekhoe elders to a rebel camp , once again in a time of frontier war- fare . The group had come to parlay with the enraged young men of the settlement , to ...
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... settlement of Kat River , and saw the rebellion of 1850-53 . He reminds us of the stubborn role of the individual at the confluence of larger historical forces - even as the gaps in his life story , notably the experiences of Khoekhoe ...
... settlement of Kat River , and saw the rebellion of 1850-53 . He reminds us of the stubborn role of the individual at the confluence of larger historical forces - even as the gaps in his life story , notably the experiences of Khoekhoe ...
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... settlers and the Xhosa beyond colonial frontiers , the Kat River settlement , was an important innovation of this period . I also consider the seemingly inexorable pres- sures towards poverty and proletarianization exerted on mission ...
... settlers and the Xhosa beyond colonial frontiers , the Kat River settlement , was an important innovation of this period . I also consider the seemingly inexorable pres- sures towards poverty and proletarianization exerted on mission ...
Contents
Terms of Encounter GraaffReinet the Khoekhoe and the South African LMS at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century | 70 |
War Conversion and the Politics of Interpretation | 110 |
Khoisan Uses of Christianity | 154 |
The Rise and Fall of Bethelsdorp Radicalism under the British 180617 | 196 |
The Political Uses of Africa Remade The Passage of Ordinance 50 | 232 |
On Probation As Free Citizens Poverty and Politics in the 1830s | 258 |
Rethinking Liberalism | 292 |
Our Church for Ourselves | 310 |
Rebellion and Its Aftermath | 344 |
Conclusions? | 376 |
Notes | 380 |
Bibliography | 450 |
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