Mission Science And Race In South Africa
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Mission Science and Race in South Africa
Author | : Keith Snedegar |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2015-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739196250 |
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Lost in the Stars is a biographical study of Alexander William Roberts, a Free Church of Scotland missionary educator who in 1883 was posted to the Lovedale Institution at Alice, South Africa. Inspired by the night sky of the southern hemisphere, Roberts became a leading observer of variable stars and an early contributor to the theory of close interacting binary stars. He actively promoted the development of colonial scientific culture and was elected president of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in 1913. His teaching career at Lovedale fostered a commitment to the interests of his African students and their communities. In 1920 Roberts was appointed to the South African senate to represent “native” Africans; he also served as senior member of the Native Affairs Commission. Despite his liberal instincts he acquiesced to the movement toward racial segregation as advanced in the Natives (Urban Areas) and Native Administration Acts. Roberts nonetheless militated against the erosion of the Cape non-racial franchise rights; he resigned from the Native Affairs Commission just as the all-white parliament was poised to remove Africans from the common voters’ roll. His engagement with the politics of race interfered with Roberts’s astronomical research. Although he published nearly one hundred papers in scientific journals most of his observational data remained unknown until the Boyden Observatory’s Roberts archive was digitized in 2006. His influence as a mission educator also has been little known, although among his pupils were journalist and academic D.D.T. Jabavu, the physician James Moroka, and Swazi king Sobhuza I.
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
Author | : William Beinart,Saul Dubow |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108837088 |
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An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
Mission Science
Author | : Carine Dujardin,Claude Prudhomme |
Publsiher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2015-03-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789462700345 |
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Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant andCatholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a “project of modernity,” a contemporary form of apologetics. “Scientific apologetics” was the way to justify missions in a society that was rapidly becoming secularized. Mission & Sciencedeals with the interaction between new scientific disciplines (historiography, geography, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics) and new scientific insights (Darwin’s evolutionary theory, heliocentrism), as well as the role of the papacy and what inspired missionary practice (first in China and the Far East and later in Africa). The renewed missiology has in turn influenced the missionary practice of the twentieth century, guided by apostolic policy. Some “missionary scholars” have even had a significant influence on the scientific discourse of their time.
Soap to Senate A German Jew at the dawn of apartheid
Author | : Adam YAMEY |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781326617127 |
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**A new insight into the genesis of apartheid** Franz Ginsberg left Germany in 1880. He settled in South Africa as an 18-year-old photographer, escaping the restrictions on Jews, only to adopt a homeland with escalating restrictions on 'black' and other
Utterly Immoral
Author | : Simon Keable-Elliott |
Publsiher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2022-11-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781803133508 |
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When Robert Keable’s First World War novel Simon Called Peter was published, critics called it ‘offensive’, ‘a libel’ and reeking of ‘drink and lust’. Scott Fitzgerald suggested it was ‘utterly immoral’ and referenced it in The Great Gatsby.
South Africa Race and the Making of International Relations
Author | : Vineet Thakur,Peter Vale |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2020-01-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781786614650 |
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This book offers readers an alternative history of the origins of the discipline of International Relations. Conventional, western histories of the discipline point to 1919 as the year of the ‘birth of the discipline’ with two seminal initiatives – setting up of the first Chair of IR at Aberystwyth and the founding of the Institute of International Relations on the side-lines of the Paris Peace Conference. From these events, International Relations is argued to have been established as a path to create peace in the post-War era and facilitated through a scientific study of international affairs. International Relations was therefore, both a field of study and knowledge production and a plan of action. This pathbreaking book challenges these claims by presenting an alternative narrative of International Relations. In this book, we make three interconnected arguments. First, we argue that the natal moment in the founding of IR is not World War I – as is generally believed – but the Anglo Boer War. Second, we argue that the ideas, methods and institutions that led to the making of IR were first thrashed out in South Africa – in Johannesburg, in fact. Finally, this South African genealogy of IR, we show in the book, allows us to properly investigate the emergence of academic IR at the interstices of race, Empire and science.
Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic
Author | : Jonathan Stadler |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2021-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783030694371 |
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This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised. Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious targets set to end the epidemic by 2030, HIV infections are increasing among young women and treatment uptake and adherence have been uneven. Focusing on the years preceding and following treatment access, this book addresses why an end to AIDS may be misplaced optimism. By examining public discourses and private narratives about infection, illness and death, this work reveals the contradictions between the lived experiences of AIDS suffering on the one hand, and biomedical certainties on the other. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural villages of the South African lowveld, and within HIV prevention interventions in South Africa more generally, this book offers an intimate perspective on the social and cultural responses to the epidemic.
Africa South of the Sahara
Author | : Library of Congress. African Section |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : UOM:39015079409531 |
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