...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...
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Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
by The EditorsIn his new publication, Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa, David Chidester explores South African indigenous religious heritage and the meaning and power of this religion in a...
Covid-19, death, and repatriation in Southern Africa
South Africa, the rainbow nation, is a diverse society and one of the most unequal in the world. Its fault lines of race, class, and gender have been deepened by...
Ubuntu, reconciliation, and the buffered self
by Justin Neuman...I relate Taylor’s idea of reconciliation to those informing claims made by Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela during and after the dismantling of apartheid and in South Africa’s interim constitution...
More than politics: An interview with Charles Villa-Vicencio
by Nathan SchneiderAs National Research Director for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Charles Villa-Vicencio was intimately involved in the historic process that followed the collapse of apartheid and paved the...
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
...And despite the nationwide diffusion of yoga, yoga teachers were almost nonexistent in the South, save for a handful of rare and fleeting appearances. While data could place yoga teachers...
Traditional, African, religious, freedom?
by Rosalind I. J. Hackett...be allowed because of its often violent consequences. This has resulted in backlash from South Africa’s pagan and Wiccan communities, such as the South African Pagan Rights Alliance. Furthermore, the...
Faith in diplomacy
by James Bourk Hoesterey...and to integrate a religion component into the Foreign Service exam. What might a Foreign Service religious studies curriculum look like in the case of contemporary Syria? Hopefully it would...
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
...churches, and other places of worship for non-Muslims, a plethora of South Asian restaurants, groceries, and other businesses, and South Asian languages are commonly spoken. Precarity also marks the condition...
Still the two Americas
by Nikhil Pal Singh...isn’t past; it isn’t even dead and buried.” Clear and certain lines of tribe and geography, time and syntax no longer separate victims and makers of history. Indeed, one might...