Blood ground : colonialism, missions, and the contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853 /

"Elbourne shows that while the Khoekhoe used Christianity as a tool to combat aspects of colonialism, throughout the nineteenth century there were broad shifts in the relationship of missions to colonialism as the British missionary movement became less internationalist, more respectable, and m...

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Main Author: Elbourne, Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. 19.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: James Read and History
  • "The Lord Is Seen to Ride on the Whirlwind": Protestant Evangelicalism in the 1790s
  • Terms of Encounter: Graaff-Reinet, the Khoekhoe, and the South African LMS at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
  • War, Conversion, and the Politics of Interpretation
  • Khoisan Uses of Christianity
  • The Rise and Fall of Bethelsdorp Radicalism under the British, 1806-17
  • The Political Uses of Africa Remade: The Passage of Ordinance 50
  • "On Probation As Free Citizens": Poverty and Politics in the 1830s
  • Rethinking Liberalism
  • "Our Church for Ourselves"
  • Rebellion and Its Aftermath.