ISBN:
9780226114439
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (614 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2 : The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier
DDC:
303.48/241/00899639775
Keywords:
Great Britain ; Colonies ; Africa
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London Missionary Society ; Missions ; South Africa
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South Africa ; History
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Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society ; Missions ; South Africa
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 Briti
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; 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 Sould by Tending the Flesh; 8 New Persons, Old Subjects: Rights, Identities, Moral Communities; 9 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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