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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vernal, Fiona
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa.
Wesleyan Methodist Church > Missions > South Africa > Eastern Cape > History.
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa
Methodism.
Méthodisme.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Methodism
Missions
Eastern Cape (South Africa) > History.
Eastern Cape (South Africa) > Church history.
Le Cap-Oriental (Afrique du Sud) > Histoire.
Le Cap-Oriental (Afrique du Sud) > Histoire religieuse.
South Africa > Eastern Cape
Electronic books.
Church history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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