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The Dominican Friars in Southern Africa
Philippe Denis
其他書名
A Social History (1577-1990)
出版BRILL, 2016-05-18
主題Religion / Christian Ministry / EvangelismReligion / Christian Ministry / Missions
ISBN90043200169789004320017
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qBH0DQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.