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Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections this book presents a trans-generational narrative of the influence and role played by diasporic Scots and their descendants in the religious and political lives of Dutch/ Afrikaner people in British colonial southern Africa. It demonstrates how this Scottish religious culture helped to develop a complicated counter-narrative to what would become the mainstream discourse of Afrikaner Christian nationalism in the early 20th century. The reader will encounter new perspectives on the ways in which the historical changeover from British Imperial rule to apartheid South Africa was both contradicted, but also in often paradoxical ways facilitated, by the influence and legacies of Scottish religious emissaries.

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"superbly researched book [...] a substantial contribution to the history of South African missions and to South African historiography--Richard Elphick ""Religious Studies Review"" The book is excellently researched from archival and published sources, and written in a very readable style. [...] valuable reading for scholars and academics in South African history, as well as for the interested reader.--Christina Landman, University of South Africa ""Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae"" This book reveals a welcome and lesser known aspect of Dutch Reformed Church history in South Africa, which contributed a significant stimulus to its historical development through Scots missionary and evangelical identity, grounded in a belief in the possibility of redemption which superceded ethnicity as it mutated into a counter-narrative to apartheid.--Graham A. Duncan, Professor of Church History and Church Polity, University of Pretoria In The Scots Afrikaners, M�ller examines the impact of diasporic Scots and their descendants on the religious and political lives of Afrikaner people in British colonial South Africa from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. [...] Recommended.--J. Werner, University of California Berkeley ""CHOICE"""

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Retief Muller, Director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity and research fellow at Stellenbosch University's discipline group of systematic theology and ecclesiology., Calvin University.

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