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- ISBN 9781474462969
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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One of the International Bulletin of Mission Research's Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, Intercultural Theology, and World Christianity for 2021 Reveals Scots influence on church and society in South Africa
Contributes to academic discourse on the historical relationship between mission, empire and colonialism
Sheds light on the relationships between religion, nationalism, and ethnicity
Focuses on Scottish Afrikaner entanglements and tensions over time to create an intermeshed historical narrative of two diverse cultures
Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections this book presents a trans-generational narrative of the influence and role played by diasporic Scots and their descendants in the religious and political lives of Dutch/ Afrikaner people in British colonial southern Africa. It demonstrates how this Scottish religious culture helped to develop a complicated counter-narrative to what would become the mainstream discourse of Afrikaner Christian nationalism in the early 20th century. The reader can expect new perspectives on the ways in which the historical changeover from British Imperial rule to apartheid South Africa was both contradicted, but also in often paradoxical ways facilitated, by the influence and legacies of Scottish religious emissaries.
Dr. Retief Müller Director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin University. He is also a research fellow at Stellenbosch University’s discipline group of systematic theology and ecclesiology. Recently awarded a major research grant in this capacity by Templeton Religion Trust for a project focusing on African theology, Müller has published widely on southern and central African religious history and theology, e.g. African Pilgrimage: Ritual Travel in South Africa’s Christianity of Zion (Ashgate, 2011). His previous academic appointment was as Associate Professor of Church History at Stellenbosch University, where he continues to serve in the capacity of research associate.
