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Title: | Between Amsterdam and Batavia: Cape Society and the Calvinist Church under the Dutch East India Company |
Author: | Schutte, Gerrit J. |
Year: | 1998-1999 |
Periodical: | Kronos: Journal of Cape History |
Issue: | 25 |
Pages: | 17-49 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa The Cape |
Subjects: | Calvinist churches history 1600-1699 1700-1799 History and Exploration Religion and Witchcraft colonialism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41056426 |
Abstract: | During the past decades historical research into the relations between church, religion and society in The Netherlands of the 17th and 18th century has changed fundamentally. The old Calvinist paradigm that focused on the faith that was prescribed changed into an approach that studied the church from below; that studied the church and religion in the day to day reality of individuals in their social setting. This approach shows that church and religion have been integral parts of the social and cultural reality of concrete historical communities. It is from this perspective that the present author examines Cape society (South Africa) and the Calvinist Church under the VOC (the Dutch East India Company). He starts with a description of the Reformed Church in The Netherlands and the baptismal practice of the Dutch Reformed Church. Then he examines baptism under the VOC, as well as the attitude of the Reformed Church towards slavery. Finally, he turns to the Cape and addresses the question of how Calvinistic the Cape was. Notes, ref. |