The Dominican Friars in Southern Africa: A Social History (1577-1990): 21 (Studies in Christian Mission) - Hardcover

Denis, Philippe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004111441 ISBN 13: 9789004111448

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 1998

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Book by Denis Philippe

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Críticas:

'...this study is [...] a fine example of historical methodology.' Charles S. Walter, Missiology, 2000. 'This book is indeed, as it claims, 'a social history', something far more than the story of one quite small group of priests and nuns...this is a book to be warmly welcomed.' Adrian Hastings, Ecclestical Hist., 2000.

Reseña del editor:

The purpose of this book is to gather in a single narrative the rather disparate stories of Dominican friars in Southern Africa over the past four centuries. Dominicans from Portugal and Portuguese India were present in South-East Africa from 1577 to 1835. Patrick Raymond Griffith, an Irish Dominican, became the first resident bishop in South Africa in 1837. A Dominican mission was established in 1917 with the arrival of a group of English friars. A second group arrived from the Netherlands in 1932. The aim is to provide a social history of the Dominicans in Southern Africa, that is, a history that deals specifically with the social and cultural factors of historical development. The Dominicans ministered in a political, social and cultural context which impacted on their apostolic activities and, in turn, was affected by them. The book's terminus ad quem is 1990, when the National Party opened a process of political negotiation, thus ending more than forty years of apartheid rule.

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 9004111441
• ISBN 13: 9789004111448
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322