BookMooch logo
 
home browse about join login
Richard Elphick : Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (Perspectives on Southern Africa)
?



Author: Richard Elphick
Title: Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (Perspectives on Southern Africa)
Moochable copies: No copies available
Topics:
>
Published in: English
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Date: 1998-02-03
ISBN: 0520209397
Publisher: University of California Press
Weight: 2.0 pounds
Size: 6.13 x 9.38 x 1.25 inches
Edition: 1
Amazon prices:
$33.55used
$53.21new
Description: Product Description
Christianity, the faith of almost three-quarters of the diverse South African population, has long been pushed to the margins of historical writing on South Africa, yet for more than two centuries it has shaped South African society and its diverse subcultures. This tightly constructed and vigorously written book--a collaboration of thirty specialists working in seven countries--situates Christianity for the first time in the broad political, social, and economic context of South African history; it also traces a variety of religious movements and their histories both before and during apartheid.
Perhaps nowhere in the African continent is the study of Christianity as fascinating, complex, or contentious as in South Africa. In the twentieth century South Africans have used Christian doctrine both to justify and to oppose doctrines of racial segregation, and Christian leadership provided much of the impetus for the founding of the African National Congress in 1912. But the history of South African Christianity is found for the most part in local, or "micro" narratives, while the highly elaborated "macro" narratives of colonialism, capitalism, and liberation--the backbone of the conventional histories of South Africa--assign Christianity a marginal role, or no role at all. This volume seeks to insert the Christian micro-narratives into the macro-narratives of South African history, providing for the first time an in-depth, cohesive look at Christianity in South Africa.
URL: http://bookmooch.com/0520209397

WISHLIST ADD >

SAVE FOR LATER >

AMAZON >

OTHER WEB SITES >

RELATED EDITIONS >

RECOMMEND >

REFRESH DATA >