Ideology and practice, a missionary case: the London Missionary Society and the Cape Frontier 1799-1850

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Title:	Ideology and practice, a missionary case: the London Missionary Society and the Cape Frontier 1799-1850
Author:	Crehan, K.
Book title:	Southern African research in progress: papers given at a conference of the Centre for Southern African studies, University of York
Year:	1979
Pages:	1-19
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	The Cape South Africa
Subjects:	missionary history Khoikhoi
Abstract:	Looks almost exclusively at LMS activity among the Khoi (who inhabited the area around the Cape prior to the development of the Cape Colony) in a period when, by and large, the missionaries were far more unambiguously non-racist and broadly liberal in outlook than were many of their successors. Concludes that Bethelsdorp and the other mission stations were right from their very foundation, because of the ideology of their founders, dedicated to transforming radically the entire way of life of their converts. Ultimately what institutions like Bethelsdorp were doing was transforming social institutions and practices alien to a capitalist system into social institutions and practices compatible with capitalism. Notes, ref.