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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... despite itself into the caul- dron of southern African power struggles and racial violence . Local peoples competed to use this society to their own advantage , as Chris- tianity became a critical element in the conflicts of early ...
... despite itself into the caul- dron of southern African power struggles and racial violence . Local peoples competed to use this society to their own advantage , as Chris- tianity became a critical element in the conflicts of early ...
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... despite the profound local distinc- tiveness of each area . KHOEKHOE AND EUROPEAN AT THE CAPE The relationship between Europeans and the Khoekhoe at the Cape before the nineteenth century was long - standing and generally destruc- tive ...
... despite the profound local distinc- tiveness of each area . KHOEKHOE AND EUROPEAN AT THE CAPE The relationship between Europeans and the Khoekhoe at the Cape before the nineteenth century was long - standing and generally destruc- tive ...
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... despite important varia- tions across societies with different theological approaches , mission- society rhetoric tended rather to emphasize that Britain would spread through her empire specifically national virtues linked to economic ...
... despite important varia- tions across societies with different theological approaches , mission- society rhetoric tended rather to emphasize that Britain would spread through her empire specifically national virtues linked to economic ...
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... despite the fact that missionaries were sometimes thorns in the sides of colonial administrators and of settlers , they were also more effective advocates of loyalty to the imperial centre than were the less ostensibly altruistic ...
... despite the fact that missionaries were sometimes thorns in the sides of colonial administrators and of settlers , they were also more effective advocates of loyalty to the imperial centre than were the less ostensibly altruistic ...
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... Despite epistemological problems of race and voice , I discuss the particular missionaries who came to South Africa , with particular attention to J.T. van der Kemp . The following two chapters take up events on the early - nineteenth ...
... Despite epistemological problems of race and voice , I discuss the particular missionaries who came to South Africa , with particular attention to J.T. van der Kemp . The following two chapters take up events on the early - nineteenth ...
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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