The Farmerfield mission : a Christian community in South Africa, 1838-2008 / Fiona Vernal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vernal, Fiona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodism.

Eastern Cape (South Africa)--History.

Eastern Cape (South Africa).

Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Church history.

Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa.

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Missions--South Africa--Eastern Cape--History.

Wesleyan Methodist Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction

Genealogies: the evangelical revival, methodism, and pioneer mission work in the Cape Colony, 1790s-1820s

Pioneer models of Methodist missionary enterprise: the chain of missions and the Albany Settlement, 1820-1838

Bringing the chain of missions back to the Eastern Cape: a novel turn in Methodist missions

"A selected class of natives:" economic visions and realities of the first fifty years of the Farmerfield Mission Station

"'Incipient civilization" and "nominal" Christianity?": the African Christian experience at Farmerfield, 1838-1884

The review of 1884: Farmerfield at a crossroads

Revamping the mission: reincarnations of Farmerfield, 1884-1962

Becoming a "black spot": the removal of 1962

Reclaiming and resettling Farmerfield

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-349) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-999630-X

0-19-984341-4

OCLC:

868923930