Religion And The Political Imagination In A Changing South Africa

Author : Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783830961482
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa written by Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783830963288
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Politics, and Identity in a Changing South Africa written by Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher Tounsel
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478013109
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chosen Peoples written by Christopher Tounsel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John H.A. Dyck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113695385X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Religious Imagination written by John H.A. Dyck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Abdulkader Tayob
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag Gmbh
ISBN 13 : 9783830913283
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Politics, and Identity in a Changing South Africa written by Abdulkader Tayob and published by Waxmann Verlag Gmbh. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, Carel Aaron Anthonissen, Wolfram Weie
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783830963271
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maintaining Apartheid or Promoting Change? written by Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, Carel Aaron Anthonissen, Wolfram Weie and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claude H Mayer
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838254317
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Walls. South African Narratives on Conflict, Difference and Identity written by Claude H Mayer and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Author : Inter-European Commission on Church and School, Sturla Sagberg, Gaynor Pollard, Peter Schreiner
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783830966708
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Education and Christian Theologies written by Inter-European Commission on Church and School, Sturla Sagberg, Gaynor Pollard, Peter Schreiner and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793630283
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions written by Chammah J. Kaunda and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution, contributorsexplore John Samuel Mbiti’s contributions to African scholarship and demonstrate how he broke through the western glass ceiling of scholarship and made African-informed and African-shaped scholarship a reality. Contributors examine the far-reaching implications of Mbiti’s scholarship, arguing that he shifted the contemporary African Christian landscape and informed global expressions of Christianity. African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions analyzes Mbiti’s scholarship and shows that his theories are malleable and fluid, allowing a new generation of scholars to reinterpret, reconstruct, and further develop his theories. This collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of contemporary African theology and grapple with questions Africans face in the twenty-first century.

Author : Andrea Fröchtling
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825866334
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being (the Church) Beyond the South-North-divide written by Andrea Fröchtling and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book testifies to the fact that the embodiment of ideas of partnership can occur in many ways. Contributors from South Africa and Germany engage in a search for identities in othernesses and for common ground beyond the divide. Seventeen contributions address a variety of partnership-related issues, ranging from ecumenical hermeneutical foundations to practical applications. Andrea Frchtling is teacher in Celle, Germany. Ndanganeni Phaswana is a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa-Central Diocese.