...tied to the North, and imagined mass-apostasy coinciding with southern independence, South Sudanese Muslims insisted that to be southern and Muslim was not a contradiction in terms. Continuity with a...
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Mourning a political saint in Johannesburg
by Rachel C. SchneiderOn December 6, 2013, I, along with millions of South Africans, woke to the news that Nelson Mandela had died. For the next ten days, South Africans would be plunged...
Neoliberalism and ambient apocalypse
...breathing the same air, after all. . . . But I also know that’s not true. The slow-violence air-disasters of the world’s cities tell us that the air is segregated...
“Drawing the line” and freedom of movement
by Yvonne Sherwood...in space. Like lines of latitude and longitude, they distinguish between different timelines of different parts of the globe. They shade into borders and “front lines.” (I think of border...
Constituting religion: From South Asia to Malaysia
...is not limited to Malaysia; the experience of Malaysia is also tied to the constitutional experience of South Asia. From South Asia to Malaysia The Constitution of Malaysia (1957) defines...
Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections
by Rachel C. Schneider...because of its emphasis on African self-reliance, its massive Easter service occupies a special place in South Africa’s political landscape. Nelson Mandela delivered a rousing Easter address in 1992, and...
Civil religion of a different kind
by Ebrahim Moosa...political powers in South Africa were unwilling to concede unregulated moral authority to an unelected constituency like religious groups. In fact, South Africa’s religious sector may have lacked the foresight...
The longue durée of apocalypse
...rights violations. In the Global South, private prisons came to signify modernization and development because they were modeled along the lines of US practice. This was similar to the replacement...
Politics of religious freedom in South Africa
by Waheeda AmienUnlike Europe and North America, the discussions in South Africa relating to religious freedom do not center on the extent to which religion can be excluded from the public domain...
Interrogating caste privilege from within
...has marked persons of South Asian ancestry across most faiths associated with India and the other nations of South Asia—including Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism—it is explicitly mentioned in Hindu texts....