(2017) Maar we wisten ons door de Heer geroepen. Kerk en apartheid in transnationaal perspectief (original) (raw)

"But we knew we were called by the Lord." Church and apartheid in transnational perspective. edit. by Casper Dullemond, Barbara Henkes, James Kennedy Dutch migrants comming to 20th century South Africa entered a society that was thouroughly divided along the colour line. They often joined a local white church, or they found one themselves. backed by fellow believers in Netherlands. South African students and vicars – since the 1970s black South Africans too - came to the Netherland to study theology and exchange ideas and experinces. Dutch missionaries worked among the Bantu, Zulu and other African nations. There was a lively exchange of people and ideas between the Netherlands and Sout Africa that was nourished by official church organisations, social-religious communities or kinship networks. An important factor in this exchange was a Protestant version of Christianity, which was dominant in both countries. This book focuses on the entanglements between Protestant Netherlands and South Africa during the years that South Africa experienced the repressive political system of apartheid. How did political, cultural and religious transfers influenced the debate on apartheid in both countries? Historians, theologians and an antropologist form South Africa and the Netherlands explore these complex entanglements of religion and politics. This involves both the ecclesiastical and theological founded support for, and the fight against apartheid. Because both proponents and opponents of apartheid knew themselves ‘called by the Lord’