Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1 Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
University of Chicago Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-226-11441-5 | Paper: 978-0-226-11442-2 | Electronic: 978-0-226-11447-7
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226114477.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Of Revelation and Revolution is at once a highly imaginative, richly detailed history of colonialism, Christianity, and consciousness in South Africa, and a theoretically challenging consideration of the most difficult questions posed by the nature of social experience. Although primarily concerned with the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Of Revelation and Revolution also looks forward to the age of apartheid and beyond.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Chronology

One: Introduction

Two: British Beginnings: Spirits of an Age, Signs of the Times

Three: Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination

Four: African Worlds: Economy, Culture, and Society, circa 1800-1830

Five: Through the Looking Glass: Heroic Journeys, First Encounters

Six: Conversion and Conversation, Narrative, Form, and Consciousness

Seven: Secular Power, Sacred Authority: The Politics of the Mission

Eight: Conlcusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index