Scots Afrikaners

Dr. Retief Müller Director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin University. He is also a research fellow at Stellenbosch University’s discipline group of systematic theology and ecclesiology. Recently awarded a major research grant in this capacity by Templeton Religion Trust for a project focusing on African theology, Müller has published widely on southern and central African religious history and theology, e.g. African Pilgrimage: Ritual Travel in South Africa’s Christianity of Zion (Ashgate, 2011). His previous academic appointment was as Associate Professor of Church History at Stellenbosch University, where he continues to serve in the capacity of research associate.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Scots Influence on the Dutch Reformed People of South Africa Chapter 2. Scots in South African Dutch Pulpits in the early to middle 19th century Chapter 3. Scottish ministers, evangelical revival, and church based ‘apartheid’? Chapter 4. The Scottish (and American) Foundations of a trans-frontier Afrikaner missionary enterpriseChapter 5. The South African War (1899-1902) and the Scots Afrikaners Chapter 6. Other(ing) Identity Formations: from mission field ecumenism to home church controversyChapter 7. Afrikaner Volkskerk ideologues and the Scots Afrikaners Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Scottish legacy in Afrikaner religiosity reassessed Notes, References

In The Scots Afrikaners, Müller 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.