...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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The politics of religious freedom
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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
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...
Reconsidering civil religion
Civil religion of a different kind
by Ebrahim Moosa...say that the tolerance that he seeks is promoted primarily by the South African Constitution. Constitutionally protected “civil religion” in post-apartheid South Africa affords religious communities multiple opportunities to bring...
here & there
Mourning a political saint in Johannesburg
by Rachel C. Schneider...Africa. This church is predominantly black, while its leadership is almost exclusively white. It appeals to upwardly mobile African immigrants and black South Africans, as well as white South Africans...
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
Covid-19, death, and repatriation in Southern Africa
Essays
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...
A Secular Age
Ubuntu, reconciliation, and the buffered self
by Justin Neuman...the remediation of ubuntu in South African jurisprudence and in its global circulation suggests a normative indictment of firm boundaries between self and other. It would be easy—and profoundly misleading—to...