Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa

From text: This book is a major contribution to the political and religious history of South Africa. Although its focus is on the years of Protestant missionary endeavours since the beginning of the 19th century up to about 1960, the subject of the book is inbedded in the whole colonial history sin...

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Main Author: J. J. Kritzinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2013-12-01
Series:Acta Theologica
Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/2564
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description From text: This book is a major contribution to the political and religious history of South Africa. Although its focus is on the years of Protestant missionary endeavours since the beginning of the 19th century up to about 1960, the subject of the book is inbedded in the whole colonial history since 1652 when the question of the relations between the races became an issue. It is the result of decades of intense, informed and fair scholarship (as its 30 pages Bibliography and 60 pages of Notes show). It gives not only a strong line of argument on the expressed theme, but also provides a wealth of (to me, at least) previous less known details about some of the main actors who played a significant role in the shaping of present and past ideologies in South Africa. In that sense it can also almost serve as an encyclopaedia, a Who’s Who of the South African racial debate (for which the 21 page Index is of great value).
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spelling doaj-art-a1ed1cc87c1541b29245d5124287dd702025-02-11T09:57:53ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Theologica1015-87582309-90892013-12-0133210.38140/at.v33i2.2564Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South AfricaJ. J. Kritzinger0University of Pretoria, South Africa & North West University, South Africa & University of the Free State, South Africa From text: This book is a major contribution to the political and religious history of South Africa. Although its focus is on the years of Protestant missionary endeavours since the beginning of the 19th century up to about 1960, the subject of the book is inbedded in the whole colonial history since 1652 when the question of the relations between the races became an issue. It is the result of decades of intense, informed and fair scholarship (as its 30 pages Bibliography and 60 pages of Notes show). It gives not only a strong line of argument on the expressed theme, but also provides a wealth of (to me, at least) previous less known details about some of the main actors who played a significant role in the shaping of present and past ideologies in South Africa. In that sense it can also almost serve as an encyclopaedia, a Who’s Who of the South African racial debate (for which the 21 page Index is of great value). https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/2564
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Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
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title Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
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