The Dominican friars in Southern Africa : a social history, 1577-1990 /
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 Dominica...
Main Author:
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston, MA :
Brill Academic Publishers,
1998.
Series:
Studies in Christian Mission
21.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.
Subjects:
Online Access: Login to view Source
Tags: Add Tag
Call Number: BX3547.A356 D46 1998
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004320017 |
| ISSN: | 0924-9389 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |