Fiona Vernal

Farmerfield Mission

A Christian Community in South Africa, 1838-2008

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans in 1838 by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an exclusive area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199843404
• ISBN-10: 0199843406
• Artikelnr.: 35055079

Autorenporträt

Assistant Professor of History, University of Connecticut

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue
* Introduction
* Part One
* Chapter One: Genealogies: The Evangelical Revival and Pioneer Mission
Work in the Cape Colony, 1799-1834
* Chapter Two: Pioneer Models of Methodist Missionary Enterprise: The
Chain of Stations
* Chapter Three: Bringing the Chain of Missions Back to the Eastern
Cape: A Novel Turn in Methodist Missions
* Part Two
* Chapter Four: ''A Select Class of Natives:'' Economic and Social
Visions of the First Fifty Years of Farmerfield
* Chapter Five: ''Incipient Civilization,'' and ''Nominal
Christianity:'' Calibrating African Christianity at Farmerfield
* Chapter Six: The Review of 1884: Farmerfield at a Crossroad
* Part Three
* Chapter Seven: Revamping the Mission: Reincarnations of Farmerfield,
1884-1962, 313
* Chapter Eight: Becoming a Black Spot: The Removal of 1962
* Chapter Nine: Reclaiming and Resettling Farmerfield
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Abbreviations
* Bibliography
* Index