The Farmerfield mission : : a Christian community in South Africa, 1838-2008 / / Fiona Vernal.

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (391 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Genealogies: the evangelical revival, methodism, and pioneer mission work in the Cape Colony, 1790s-1820s
  • Pioneer models of Methodist missionary enterprise: the chain of missions and the Albany Settlement, 1820-1838
  • Bringing the chain of missions back to the Eastern Cape: a novel turn in Methodist missions
  • "A selected class of natives:" economic visions and realities of the first fifty years of the Farmerfield Mission Station
  • "'Incipient civilization" and "nominal" Christianity?": the African Christian experience at Farmerfield, 1838-1884
  • The review of 1884: Farmerfield at a crossroads
  • Revamping the mission: reincarnations of Farmerfield, 1884-1962
  • Becoming a "black spot": the removal of 1962
  • Reclaiming and resettling Farmerfield
  • Conclusion.