...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...
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
Covid-19, death, and repatriation in Southern Africa
A Secular Age
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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
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...
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
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...
here & there
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...
"These things are old"
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...