Of revelation and revolution. Volume two, The dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comaroff, Jean.

Contributor:

Comaroff, John L., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa--History.

South Africa.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa.

Great Britain.

London Missionary Society--Missions--South Africa.

London Missionary Society.

Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society--Missions--South Africa.

Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the second of a proposed three-volume study, John and Jean Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Moving beyond the opening moments of the encounter between the British Nonconformist missions and the Southern Tswana peoples, Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II, explores the complex transactions-both epic and ordinary-among the various dramatis personae along this colonial frontier.The Comaroffs trace many of the major themes of twentieth-century South African history back to these formative encounters. The relationship between the British

Contents:

Preface; Chronology; 1 Introduction; 2 Preachers and Prophets: The Domestication of the Sacred Word; 3 Cultivation, Colonialism, and Christianity: Toward a New African Genesis; 4 Currencies of Conversion: Of Markets, Money, and Value; 5 Fashioning the Colonial Subject: The Empire''s Old Clothes; 6 Mansions of the Lord: Architecture, Interiority, Domesticity; 7 The Medicine of God''s Word: Saving the Soul by Tending the Flesh; 8 New Persons, Old Subjects: Rights, Identities, Moral Communities; 9 Conclusion; Appendix.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612069710

9781282069718

1282069713

9780226114675

0226114678

OCLC:

808802813