Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa

Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa
Author: Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell,Gordon Mitchell
Publsiher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion and politics
ISBN: 3830961480

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Religion Politics and Identity in a Changing South Africa

Religion  Politics  and Identity in a Changing South Africa
Author: Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester
Publsiher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2024
Genre: Religion and politics
ISBN: 3830963289

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What is the role of religion in society? In the wake of September 11, public intellectuals provided easy answers. According to some, religion was the problem, others commented, religion was the solution. Generally, public debate about the force of religion in society has been organized by either/or propositions. Religion is a force for either freedom or bondage, for either peace or war, for either mutual recognition or antagonistic polarization. Analysis of religion and social change has also tended to be framed in terms of oppositions that inform research agendas and public policy. In this book, authors from South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, and Germany test these oppositions.

Chosen Peoples

Chosen Peoples
Author: Christopher Tounsel
Publsiher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781478013105

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On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which the South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from the Arab and Muslim Sudanese to the north and understand themselves as a spiritual community now freed from their oppressors. Less than three years later, however, new conflicts emerged along ethnic lines within South Sudan, belying the liberation theology that had supposedly reached its climactic conclusion with independence. In Chosen Peoples, Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict. Exploring the creation of a colonial-era mission school to halt Islam's spread up the Nile, the centrality of biblical language in South Sudanese propaganda during the Second Civil War (1983--2005), and postindependence transformations of religious thought in the face of ethnic warfare, Tounsel highlights the potential and limitations of deploying race and Christian theology to unify South Sudan.

Religion Politics and Identity in a Changing South Africa

Religion  Politics  and Identity in a Changing South Africa
Author: Abdulkader Tayob,Wolfram Weisse
Publsiher: Waxmann Verlag Gmbh
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion and politics
ISBN: 3830913281

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What is the role of religion in society? In the wake of September 11, public intellectuals provided easy answers. According to some, religion was the problem, others commented, religion was the solution. Generally, public debate about the force of religion in society has been organized by either/or propositions. Religion is a force for either freedom or bondage, for either peace or war, for either mutual recognition or antagonistic polarization. Analysis of religion and social change has also tended to be framed in terms of oppositions that inform research agendas and public policy. In this book, authors from South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, and Germany test these oppositions.

Politics and the Religious Imagination

Politics and the Religious Imagination
Author: John H.A. Dyck,Paul S. Rowe,Jens Zimmermann
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781136953859

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Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that represent varied geographies and religious customs. The past decade has seen increasing interest in the links between religion and politics, and this edited volume seeks to take religion seriously as a motivator of action. Few studies have attempted to bring together the multi-disciplinary work in this burgeoning field of study and this work takes a global perspective, using a variety of contexts including East-West relations to analyze the following key themes: the constructive and destructive hermeneutics of religious stories the relevance and importance of religion as a dominant political narrative the rise of new stories among groups as agents of change the way that religious narratives help to define and constrain the Other the manipulation of religious stories for political benefit This work argues that it is insufficient to judge the relationship of religion and politics through mere institutional or quantitative lenses, and this collection proves that while this promise of the narrative part of the social imaginary has been recognized in political theory to a certain extent, its influence in the realm of empirical political science has yet to be fully considered. Combining the work of a wide range of experts, this collection will be of great interests to scholars of politics, philosophy, religious studies, and the literary influence of religion.

Maintaining Apartheid or Promoting Change

Maintaining Apartheid or Promoting Change
Author: Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, Carel Aaron Anthonissen, Wolfram Weie
Publsiher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2024
Genre: Apartheid
ISBN: 3830963270

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Artificial Walls South African Narratives on Conflict Difference and Identity

Artificial Walls  South African Narratives on Conflict  Difference and Identity
Author: Claude H Mayer
Publsiher: ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2005-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783838254319

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This book offers far-reaching insights into perceptions of conflict in South Africa. Claude-Hélène Mayer’s approach is remarkable, because she imparts the recollections of numerous people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The author captures the essence of about one-hundred interviews reflecting disparate attitudes towards social changes in the post-apartheid Republic of South Africa. Unexpected statements – for example, with respect to the continued existence of internalized apartheid – are carefully analyzed and hermeneutically understood. At the beginning of the research, presumptions might have raised expectations for the similarity between the narrative interviews. However, it becomes clear during the reading of this work that each interview was itself unique and each created a unique situation between the interviewer and the interviewee, inviting the reader to listen again and again to the spoken and analyzed words. The thorough, months-long field stays, from 1999 until 2004, emphasize the researcher’s exhaustive effort better to understand the perspective of the interviewees. In addition to the book's research-related merits, its data can increase the cultural competence of those readers who are interested in information on specific predominant-cultural standards in present day South Africa. Readers can more fully appreciate how the people in South Africa live a special, dynamic form of their unmatched “unity in diversity.”

Religious Education and Christian Theologies

Religious Education and Christian Theologies
Author: Inter-European Commission on Church and School, Sturla Sagberg, Gaynor Pollard, Peter Schreiner,Peter Schreiner
Publsiher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2024
Genre: Christian education
ISBN: 3830966709

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