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Title:Dutch Calvinism and the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism
Author:Hexham, Irving
Year:1980
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:79
Issue:315
Period:April
Pages:195-208
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:Calvinist churches
nationalism
Afrikaners
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Religion and Witchcraft
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/722119
Abstract:From a survey of existing literature, there seems to be a clear-cut case to show that the Calvinism of the Dutch Reformed Church has moulded the Afrikaner national character, and brought into being Afrikaner Nationalism and the racial policies for which it is so well known. However, there are various reasons why this 'received opinion' is mistaken. The author offers an alternative explanation of the relationship between Calvinism and Afrikaner Nationalism in a brief examination of Church history in South Africa, focussing in particular on the many and bitter differences between the Evangelical an Calvinist groups and the founding of the Reformed Church in 1859. The author argues that the source of the theories that became the basis of Afrikaner Nationalism is to be found in the Reformed Church. To appreciate the role which the Reformed Church played, it is necessary to understand the origin of the Christian-National ideology in the Netherlands, the relationship between the Reformed Church and the Dutch Calvinist revival, and the way in which the Reformed Church influenced the Nationalist movement following the Second Anglo-Boer War. Notes. Comment in Afr. Aff., 80 (1981), 320, p. 403-404.
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