...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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Revisited: Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections
...Thirty years after apartheid, the utopian vision of a New South Africa—one that is inclusive, democratic, and racially just—remains just as elusive as ever. In 2024, 36.9 percent of South Africa’s...
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...
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...
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...
Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections
by Rachel C. SchneiderIn 2004 and 2008, South African president Jacob Zuma notoriously declared that his party, the African National Congress, will “rule until Jesus comes back.” The recent national election results favor...
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...
The failures and successes of translation
...eminent South Asian poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, was “anti-Hindu.” Students had recited the poem on the college’s grounds to express support for those who were protesting against new discriminatory citizenship...
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....
God was on everybody’s side: A conversation with Jean Comaroff
by David Kyuman Kim...this term, in its then unproblematic usage, was less than helpful. When I got to my field site, in rural northwest South Africa, the religious lingua franca was Christianity, African...