BOOKS - The Scots Afrikaners
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The Scots Afrikaners
Author: Retief Muller
Year: July 14, 1905
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 4.0 MB
Language: English
Year: July 14, 1905
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 4.0 MB
Language: English
Reveals Scots influence on church and society in South Africa Contributes to academic discourse on the historical relationship between mission empire and colonialismSheds light on the relationships between religion nationalism and ethnicityFocuses on Scottish Afrikaner entanglements and tensions over time to create an intermeshed historical narrative of two diverse culturesDrawing 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
