Numerous studies have shown how apartheid and the struggle against it influenced a range of Christian denominations and missionary agencies in South Africa, but these investigations have tended to ignore smaller ...

Neither the secular nor ecclesiastical Russia of the second half of the nineteenth century left much room for women’s activity outside the home. The situation slowly began to change by the turn of the century when women ...

Kikuyu 1913 was the first fully fledged conference on the unity of the Church in what was then British East Africa – today’s Kenya. Although there were other meetings, such as Maseno 1908, Kijabe 1909 and Nairobi 1911, ...

Historiography is concerned with the historian’s perception and account of events, the latter often being formulated to achieve a particular end. The present article attempts to explore this notion through an investigation ...

The most famous (and most interpreted) world mission conference was Edinburgh 1910, at which almost all Protestant missions participated. While some see Edinburgh 1910 as the height of achievement, others see it as the ...

In this article the oral historian as a co-constructor of stories is explored, and the oral construction of stories towards healing is described in three South African contexts . The first of these roles to be described ...

The Batlhaping people, like other communities, nations and countries have encountered difficulties such as invasions, war and conquest and, in some cases, have stood up to defend themselves against their enemies (one ...