Christianity in South Africa : a political, social, and cultural history /

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Other Authors: Elphick, Richard., Davenport, T. R. H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1997.
Series:Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 55.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Christianity in South African history / Richard Elphick
  • A Christian monopoly : the Reformed Church and colonial society under Dutch rule / Jonathan N. Gerstner
  • Combating spiritual and social bondage : early missions in the Cape colony / Elizabeth Elbourne & Robert Ross
  • Settlement, conquest and theological controversy : the churches of nineteenth-century European immigrants / Rodney Davenport
  • A battle for sacred power : Christian beginnings among the Xhosa / Janet Hodgson
  • Kingdoms of this world and the next : Christian beginnings among Zulu and Swazi / Norman Etherington
  • (cont.) Monarchs and missionaries among the Tswana and Sotho / Roger B. Beck
  • The spread of Christianity among whites and blacks in Transorangia / Irving Hexham & Karla Poewe
  • Modernization and apartheid : the Afrikaner churches / Johann Kinghorn
  • Grappling with a colonial heritage : the English-speaking churches under imperalism and apartheid / John W. de Gruchy
  • Lutheran missions and churches in South Africa / Georg Scriba with Gunnar Lislerud
  • Moving from the margins to the mainstream : the Roman Catholic Church / Joy Brain
  • "A branch springs out" : African initiated churches / Hennie Pretorius & Lizo Jafta
  • (cont.) The segregated spirit : the Pentecostals / Allan A. Anderson & Gerald J. Pillay
  • The struggle for Sunday : all-male Christianity in the Gold Mine compounds / Tshidiso Maloka
  • Power in prayer and service : women's Christian organizations / Deborah Gaitskell
  • Between Christ and Mohammed : conversion, slavery, and gender in the urban Western Cape / Robert C.-H. Shell
  • Ambivalence, antipathy, and accommodation : Christianity and the Jews / Milton Shain
  • Community service and conversion : Christianity among Indian South Africans / Gerald J. Pillay
  • (cont.) The drumbeat of the cross : Christianity and literature / Jeff Opland
  • South African Christian music. A. Christian music in the Western tradition / Barry Smith. B. Christian music among Africans / David Dargie
  • South African Christian architecture / Dennis Radford
  • Millennial Christianity, British imperalism, and African nationalism / Wallace G. Mills
  • The benevolent empire and the social gospel : missionaries and South African Christians in the age of segregation / Richard Elphick
  • Creation and apartheid : South African theology since 1948 / Eugene M. Klaaren
  • Christianity and the anti-apartheid struggle : the prophetic voice within divided churches / Peter Walshe.