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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... groups at the Cape and the LMS between the late eighteenth and mid - nineteenth centuries . Read came with naive expectations , fuelled by faith , to a place of which he knew nothing . In one sense he was a witness to " success , " in ...
... groups at the Cape and the LMS between the late eighteenth and mid - nineteenth centuries . Read came with naive expectations , fuelled by faith , to a place of which he knew nothing . In one sense he was a witness to " success , " in ...
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... groups attempted to influence . Evangelicalism had a multifaceted influence on the relationship between Britain and Africa which cannot be captured by the simplistic vision of the topee - coiffed Victorian as agent of cul- tural ...
... groups attempted to influence . Evangelicalism had a multifaceted influence on the relationship between Britain and Africa which cannot be captured by the simplistic vision of the topee - coiffed Victorian as agent of cul- tural ...
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... groups , and even what names the hunter - gatherers would have preferred for themselves . Controversy also rages over the processes by which these nomads were subordinated and the degree of agency remaining to par- ticular groups at ...
... groups , and even what names the hunter - gatherers would have preferred for themselves . Controversy also rages over the processes by which these nomads were subordinated and the degree of agency remaining to par- ticular groups at ...
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... groups that were still independent to become part of the British empire , often supposedly to protect themselves against worse ills , such as uncontrolled settler incur- sions . Converts and those engaged in diplomacy through ...
... groups that were still independent to become part of the British empire , often supposedly to protect themselves against worse ills , such as uncontrolled settler incur- sions . Converts and those engaged in diplomacy through ...
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... groups within the empire , in a manner that in itself could serve as a justification for conquest . The British could describe themselves to themselves as modern , and as agents of a rationalizing modernity in the world through the ...
... groups within the empire , in a manner that in itself could serve as a justification for conquest . The British could describe themselves to themselves as modern , and as agents of a rationalizing modernity in the world through the ...
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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