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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... suggests the impossibility of disaggregating " national " histories from one another . The limitations of an exclusive- ly domestic focus from either the British or the South African perspec- tive will in fact be a key theme of this ...
... suggests the impossibility of disaggregating " national " histories from one another . The limitations of an exclusive- ly domestic focus from either the British or the South African perspec- tive will in fact be a key theme of this ...
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... 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 imperialism . Finally , I want to suggest that 8 Blood Ground.
... 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 imperialism . Finally , I want to suggest that 8 Blood Ground.
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... suggest that much of this influence occurred at the popular level : missionaries in the early nineteenth cen- tury tended to be drawn from the upper ranks of the working classes , while their early converts were generally those with ...
... suggest that much of this influence occurred at the popular level : missionaries in the early nineteenth cen- tury tended to be drawn from the upper ranks of the working classes , while their early converts were generally those with ...
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... suggest that many biblical narra- tives accommodate a great number of interpretations in practice . A language can be held in common and still have different meanings for different speakers , changing subtly over time and across ...
... suggest that many biblical narra- tives accommodate a great number of interpretations in practice . A language can be held in common and still have different meanings for different speakers , changing subtly over time and across ...
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... suggests , and they do modify their arguments somewhat in the second volume of what will eventually be a three - part study . They stress the multiplicity of meaning systems among different African groups and among various sets of ...
... suggests , and they do modify their arguments somewhat in the second volume of what will eventually be a three - part study . They stress the multiplicity of meaning systems among different African groups and among various sets of ...
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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