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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101474462960

ISBN-139781474462969

eBay Product ID (ePID)25059209727

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Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameScots Afrikaners : Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa

SubjectChristian Ministry / Missions, Africa / South / General, Modern / 20th Century, Modern / 19th Century, Africa / Central, Europe / Great Britain / General

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

AuthorRetief Muller

Subject AreaReligion, History

SeriesScottish Religious Cultures Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsIn The Scots Afrikaners , Müller examines the impact of diasporic Scots and their descendants on the religious and political lives of Afrikaner people in British colonial South Africa from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. [...] Recommended., superbly researched book [...] a substantial contribution to the history of South African missions and to South African historiography, This book reveals a welcome and lesser known aspect of Dutch Reformed Church history in South Africa, which contributed a significant stimulus to its historical development through Scots missionary and evangelical identity, grounded in a belief in the possibility of redemption which superceded ethnicity as it mutated into a counter-narrative to apartheid., The book is excellently researched from archival and published sources, and written in a very readable style. [...] valuable reading for scholars and academics in South African history, as well as for the interested reader.

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal967.0049163

Table Of ContentChapter 1. Introduction: Scots Influence on the Dutch Reformed People of South Africa Chapter 2. Scots in South African Dutch Pulpits in the early to middle 19th century Chapter 3. Scottish ministers, evangelical revival, and church based 'apartheid'? Chapter 4. The Scottish (and American) Foundations of a trans-frontier Afrikaner missionary enterpriseChapter 5. The South African War (1899-1902) and the Scots Afrikaners Chapter 6. Other(ing) Identity Formations: from mission field ecumenism to home church controversyChapter 7. Afrikaner Volkskerk ideologues and the Scots Afrikaners Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Scottish legacy in Afrikaner religiosity reassessed Notes, References

SynopsisDrawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections this book presents a trans-generational narrative of the influence and role played by diasporic Scots and their descendants in the religious and political lives of Dutch/ Afrikaner people in British colonial southern Africa. It demonstrates how this Scottish religious culture helped to develop a complicated counter-narrative to what would become the mainstream discourse of Afrikaner Christian nationalism in the early 20th century. The reader will encounter new perspectives on the ways in which the historical changeover from British Imperial rule to apartheid South Africa was both contradicted, but also in often paradoxical ways facilitated, by the influence and legacies of Scottish religious emissaries.

LC Classification NumberDT16.S35