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In the mid-1990s the Truth and Reconciliation Commission disclosed its findings on the awful reality of the apartheid era in South Africa. The Commission inspired scholars from Europe, North America, and South Africa to convene a group of their own, to investigate in multicultural, scholarly dialogue the history, theology, philosophy, and politics of race and reconciliation in South Africa. This volume is the product of that important dialogue. And while the focus is the particular environment of South Africa, the contributors work within a comparative perspective, using examples from other nations and cultures to explore that which makes South Africa unique. Ultimately, the book aims to offer not only a better understanding of the depth of injustice in South Africa's past, but also a deeper appreciation for the achievement of the present and the promise of the future-in South Africa and in every other multiethnic region in the world.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 South Africa and Paul's Letter to the Galations: A Struggle with Ethnicity and Race
Chapter 4 British Immigration during the Nineteenth Century: The American and South African Experience
Chapter 5 The Chastening of the English-Speaking Churches in South Africa
Chapter 6 Ecclesiastical Racism and the Politics of Confession in the United States and South Africa
Chapter 7 Building Democracy: An Examination of Religious Associations in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Chapter 8 The Church Partitioned or the Church Reconciled? South Africa's Theological and Historical Dilemma
Chapter 9 Christian Scholarship for Reconciliation? The Free University of Amsterdam and Potchesfstroom University for Christian Higher Education
Chapter 10 South Africa's Bill of Rights: Reconciliation and a Just Society
Chapter 11 Multiculturalism: How Can the Human World Live Its Difference?
Chapter 12 Eco-Human Justice and Well-Being
Chapter 13 Truth and Reconciliation: The South African Experience

Product details

Published 17 May 2000
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9780739159859
Imprint Lexington Books
Series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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