...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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by Rachel C. Schneider
Mourning a political saint in Johannesburg
On 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...
Reconsidering civil religion ![]()
by Ebrahim Moosa
Civil religion of a different kind
the conference thus proposed a clause for such a Bill of Rights. The proposed clause stated: 1. All persons are entitled: 1.1 to freedom of conscience 1.2 to profess, practice...
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by Rachel C. Schneider
Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections
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...
The politics of religious freedom ![]()
by Waheeda Amien
Politics of religious freedom in South Africa
not enjoy the legal protection that Christian marriages enjoyed. It was not until the introduction of democracy in 1994 and the adoption of South Africa’s Constitution that a commitment was...
Deathless questions and other interviews ![]()
by David Kyuman Kim
God was on everybody’s side: A conversation with Jean Comaroff
...By the time the 1960s rolled around, you needed special permits for meetings of more than 12 people; only religious gatherings and funerals were exempted, which was why funerals became...
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by The Editors
Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
changing South African society. Publisher University of California Press explains: Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the...
A Secular Age ![]()
by Justin Neuman
Ubuntu, reconciliation, and the buffered self
...Reconciliation Commission, which dominated media and politics in South Africa from 1996 to 1998). Proleptically affirming the possibility of reconciliation on the basis of a community yet to come, the...