Blood Ground - Colonialism, Missions, Contest for Christianity in Cape Colony

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Elbourne is associate professor, history, McGill University. Klappentext An incisive history of the role of Christianity in linking, constraining, and changing the lives of the peoples of South Africa in the early nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Looks at the complex relationship between the Khoekhoe! the British empire! and the London Missionary Society in the Cape Colony in southern Africa at a time of intense conflict during which disparate groups competed to mobilize Christianity for their own political ends.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Elbourne
• Publisher: Mcgill queen's university pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2008
• EAN: 9780773534537
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-3453-7
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the; None; McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Re; McGill-Queen's Studies in the; McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Religion; McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Re
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous