The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa

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 discou...