TY  - BOOK
AU  - Denis,Philippe
TI  - The Dominican friars in Southern Africa: a social history, 1577-1990 
T2  - Studies in Christian mission,
SN  - 9789004320017
AV  - BX3547.A356 D46 1998
U1  - 271/.2068 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Leiden, Boston, MA
PB  - Brill Academic Publishers
KW  - Dominicans
KW  - Africa, Southern
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-308) and index; Preliminary material -- THE PORTUGUESE DOMINICANS IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA -- PATRICK GRIFFITH, FIRST CATHOLIC BISHOP IN SOUTH AFRICA -- THE ENGLISH DOMINICANS -- THE DUTCH DOMINICANS -- THE TRAINING OF INDIGENOUS CLERGY -- THE DOMINICANS AND APARTHEID -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF MAPS -- INDEX -- ILLUSTRATIONS; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004320017
ER  -