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1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-349) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
This text explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa.
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Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa. |
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Wesleyan Methodist Church -- Missions -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- History.
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Wesleyan Methodist Church. |
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Missions. |
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South Africa. |
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History. |
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South Africa -- Eastern Cape. |
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Methodism.
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Methodism. |
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Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- History.
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Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Church history.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vernal, Fiona. Farmerfield mission : a Christian community in South Africa, 1838-2008. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012 xvi, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. 9780199843404 (DLC) 2012000444 |
| ISBN |
9780199843411 (e-book) |
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0199843414 (e-book) |
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0199950547 |
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9780199950546 |
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9780199843404 |
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0199843406 |
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