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Author: Peter Walshe
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book includes the events leading up to the 1994 elections and closes with some provocative questions about the role of the churches in the new South Africa.
Author: Paul Gifford
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-07
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9004664610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on the role Christian churches have played in Africa's democratisation movements since the late 1980s. In some cases churchmen have presided over national conferences; in many, Christians comprise arguably the most significant segment of civil society. In some countries pastoral letters have challenged dictators; in others, churches have provided an essential support for the status quo. The book comprises both theoretical analyses and case studies. The theoretical discussions include the history of Church-State relations; theology and democracy; Pentecostalism and democracy; the problems of consolidating democracy. The 13 case studies sketch the historical context, and then critically examine developments up till late 1993. The book will prove particularly useful to students of Third World Christianity, African historians and political scientists, and all interested in the socio-political role of Christianity.
Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 052170569X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive look at black theology and its connection with major doctrinal themes within Christianity from a global perspective.
Author: Daniel R. Magaziner
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010-09-07
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0821419188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of years bridged the banning and exile of the country’s best-known antiapartheid leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests that erupted after the Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976. The Law and the Prophets is an intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977; it follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. Magaziner argues that only by understanding how ideas about race, faith, and selfhood developed and were transformed in this period might we begin to understand the dramatic changes that took place.
Author: John W. De Gruchy
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780800637552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo more heartrending yet hopeful case study in Christian ethics exists than in the story of South African apartheid and its recent decisive transformation. John de Gruchy's authoritative and newly updated account of Christian complicity with and then resistance to one of the world's most notoriously repressive regimes holds indispensable lessons and "dangerous memories" for all concerned about evil, justice, and racial reconciliation.
Author: William E. Van Vugt
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780739101575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Lyn S. Graybill
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781588260574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraybill (mind and human interaction, U. of Virginia) provides students not only the facts about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but also the broader context in which it operated. She asks whether it led to reconciliation and healing, what criteria were used to decide whether to pardon or punish, whether politics necessitated the compromise, and other questions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Lyn S. Graybill
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780761810711
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Author: John W. De Gruchy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-06
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521458412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe need for global democratisation is now widely recognised, but there is considerable debate about what this means and how it can be achieved. In this important study John de Gruchy examines the historic and contemporary roles of Christianity in the development of democracy. He traces the gestation of modern democracy in medieval Christendom, and then describes the virtual breakdown of the relationship as democracy becomes the polity of modernity. Five twentieth-century case studies - the USA, Nicaragua, sub-Saharan Africa, Germany and South Africa - demonstrate the extent to which ecumenical Christianity has begun to reconnect with democracy and act as its contemporary midwife. De Gruchy argues that democracy needs to rediscover its spiritual heritage, while Christianity needs to develop a theology adequate for its participation in the realisation of a just democratic world order.
Author: Robert Aleksander Maryks
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-01-03
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9004347151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProtestants entering Africa in the nineteenth century sought to learn from earlier Jesuit presence in Ethiopia and southern Africa. The nineteenth century was itself a century of missionary scramble for Africa during which the Jesuits encountered their Protestant counterparts as both sought to evangelize the African native. Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa, edited by Robert Alexander Maryks and Festo Mkenda, S.J., presents critical reflections on the nature of those encounters in southern Africa and in Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Fernando Po. Though largely marked by mutual suspicion and outright competition, the encounters also reveal personal appreciations and support across denominational boundaries and thus manifest salient lessons for ecumenical encounters even in our own time. This volume is the result of the second Boston College International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya) in 2016. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, it is available in Open Access.
