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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... travel fund of Oxford University . The Aid to Scholarly Publications program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada supported the publication of this book . I am grateful to all these bodies . McGill - Queen's ...
... travel fund of Oxford University . The Aid to Scholarly Publications program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada supported the publication of this book . I am grateful to all these bodies . McGill - Queen's ...
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... Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa ) View of Fort Frederick and Algoa Bay , engraved by L. Portman from an original drawing by W.B.E. Paravicini di Capelli ( Quatre vues d'Afrique , published in conjunction with Ludwig Alberti ...
... Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa ) View of Fort Frederick and Algoa Bay , engraved by L. Portman from an original drawing by W.B.E. Paravicini di Capelli ( Quatre vues d'Afrique , published in conjunction with Ludwig Alberti ...
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... heidenen . Amsterdam : 1805 ) Meeting of General J.W. Janssens and Xhosa chief Ngqika ,. Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp ( Evangelical Magazine , April 1799 ) John Campbell's view of Bethelsdorp ( Campbell , Travels in.
... heidenen . Amsterdam : 1805 ) Meeting of General J.W. Janssens and Xhosa chief Ngqika ,. Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp ( Evangelical Magazine , April 1799 ) John Campbell's view of Bethelsdorp ( Campbell , Travels in.
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... Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society ) John Philip , engraved by Thompson from an original painting. John Campbell's view of Bethelsdorp ( Campbell , Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the ...
... Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society ) John Philip , engraved by Thompson from an original painting. John Campbell's view of Bethelsdorp ( Campbell , Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the ...
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... 1 Mapping and colonial possession : John Barrow's map of the Cape Colony in 1797-98 ( Barrow , Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa , vol . I ) . This version of the map was simpli- hart E OF GOOD HOPE , distances . And frequent.
... 1 Mapping and colonial possession : John Barrow's map of the Cape Colony in 1797-98 ( Barrow , Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa , vol . I ) . This version of the map was simpli- hart E OF GOOD HOPE , distances . And frequent.
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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