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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... hands . When you till the ground it shall no longer yield you any of its produce . You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer over the earth . ' Then Cain said to Yahweh , ' My punishment is greater than I can bear . See ! Today you drive ...
... hands . When you till the ground it shall no longer yield you any of its produce . You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer over the earth . ' Then Cain said to Yahweh , ' My punishment is greater than I can bear . See ! Today you drive ...
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... hands of those who sought to use it : millenarian prophets , authoritarian and radical mis- sionaries alike , British abolitionists , Khoekhoe preachers , and racist settlers all sought to control its language in a climate of intense ...
... hands of those who sought to use it : millenarian prophets , authoritarian and radical mis- sionaries alike , British abolitionists , Khoekhoe preachers , and racist settlers all sought to control its language in a climate of intense ...
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... hands three times in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , as a pawn in European wars being fought out across the globe . In 1795 William of Orange ceded the Cape of Good Hope to Britain as French revolutionary armies ...
... hands three times in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , as a pawn in European wars being fought out across the globe . In 1795 William of Orange ceded the Cape of Good Hope to Britain as French revolutionary armies ...
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... because my focus is on a colony in which Christianity already had mul- tiple meanings . On the other hand , it is also because I think that an a priori commitment to dialectic risks silencing the voices of Christian 18 Blood Ground.
... because my focus is on a colony in which Christianity already had mul- tiple meanings . On the other hand , it is also because I think that an a priori commitment to dialectic risks silencing the voices of Christian 18 Blood Ground.
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... hand , missions helped rigidify the notions of " black " and " white " which had such a profound deleterious impact on South Africa . At their starkest , they were sites of confrontation between peo- ple claiming to represent " white ...
... hand , missions helped rigidify the notions of " black " and " white " which had such a profound deleterious impact on South Africa . At their starkest , they were sites of confrontation between peo- ple claiming to represent " white ...
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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