The Scots Afrikaners : identity politics and intertwined religious cultures in Southern and Central Africa / Retief Muller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller, Retief, author.

Series:

Scottish religious cultures.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Scottish religious cultures

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scots--Africa, Central--Religious life.

Scots.

Scots--Africa, Southern--Religious life.

Africa, Central--Church history.

Africa, Central.

Africa, Southern--Church history.

Africa, Southern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Drawing 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Chapter one. Introduction: Scots Influence on the Dutch Reformed People of South Africa

Chapter two. Scots in South African Dutch Pulpits in the Early to Middle Nineteenth Century

Chapter three. Scottish Ministers, Evangelical Revival and Church-based ‘Apartheid’?

Chapter four. The Scottish (and American) Foundations of a Trans-frontier Afrikaner Missionary Enterprise1

Chapter five. The South African War (1899–1902) and the Scots Afrikaners

Chapter six. Other(ing) Identity Formations: From Mission Field Ecumenism to Home Church Controversy

Chapter seven. Afrikaner Volkskerk Ideologues and the Scots Afrikaners

Chapter eight. Conclusion: The Scottish Legacy in Afrikaner Religiosity Reassessed

References

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2022).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4744-6298-7

1-3995-0979-9

1-4744-6297-9

OCLC:

1292706638