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Title: | 'Sekukuni, Listen!, Banna!, and to the Children of Frederick the Great and Our Kaiser Wilhelm': Documents in the Social and Religious History of the Transvaal, 1860-1890 |
Author: | Rüther, Kirsten |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 207-234 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Transvaal South Africa |
Subjects: | information management religious history Christianity social change colonial history Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1581545.pdf |
Abstract: | Encountering colonialism and Christianity, African people became intertwined with the development of a documentary culture in the Northern Transvaal, South Africa. Between 1860 and 1890, Africans, missionaries, and settlers produced and read Bibles, codes of law, newspaper articles, translations of religious texts and church declarations. Different social groups responded to the introduction and availability of documents in different ways. And the diverse responses of African people to documents interrelated with missionaries', settlers', and bureaucrats' attitudes. Attitudes towards documents thus became a lens through which today it is possible to assess social and religious change in the Transvaal. They point to a dynamic and unsettled character of 19th century Christianity in the Transvaal even before African churches became formally initiated. People developed attitudes towards documents. And they did so less for the sake of the documents themselves, but more often in order to achieve general social and religious change. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |