The Dominican Friars in Southern Africa

A Social History (1577-1990)
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-11144-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 789 g

Reihe: Studies in Christian Mission

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Denis, Philippe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Philippe Denis, Ph.D. (1983) in History, University of Liège, Belgium, is Associate Professor in History of Christianity at the School of Theology of the University of Natal. He has published widely on the history of the Reformation and the history of indigenous Christianity in Southern Africa. He belongs to the Dominican Order.