Afrikaners and the boundaries of faith in post-apartheid South Africa
INTRODUCTION: MIXED BLESSINGS -- THE AFRIKANERS AND THEIR CHURCH -- PERFORMING WHITENESS -- CRACKED LAER -- THE CHANGING RELIGIOUS SCENE IN STELLENBOSCH -- MADAMS AND MASTERS OF MAGIC -- "WE KEPT EVERYTHING, AND WE CHANGED EVERYTHING" -- CONCLUSION: SOUTH AFRICAN MIRACLES.
| Published in: | Routledge contemporary South Africa |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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London New York, NY
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
2022
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| In: |
Routledge contemporary South Africa (volume 10)
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| Series/Journal: | Routledge contemporary South Africa
volume 10 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Boers
/ Religious identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AX Inter-religious relations KBN Sub-Saharan Africa XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
South Africa
Social conditions 1994-
B Freedom Of Religion (South Africa) B Afrikaners Religious life (South Africa) |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | INTRODUCTION: MIXED BLESSINGS -- THE AFRIKANERS AND THEIR CHURCH -- PERFORMING WHITENESS -- CRACKED LAER -- THE CHANGING RELIGIOUS SCENE IN STELLENBOSCH -- MADAMS AND MASTERS OF MAGIC -- "WE KEPT EVERYTHING, AND WE CHANGED EVERYTHING" -- CONCLUSION: SOUTH AFRICAN MIRACLES. "This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid. The end of South Africa's apartheid system of racial and spatial segregation sparked wide-reaching social change as social, cultural, spatial and racial boundaries were transgressed and transformed. This book investigates how Afrikaners have mediated the country's shifting boundaries within the realm of religion. For instance, one in every three Afrikaners used these new freedoms to leave the traditional Dutch Reformed Church (NGK), often for an entirely new religious affiliation within the Pentecostal or Charismatic churches, or new religious movements such as Wiccan neopaganism. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Western Cape area, the book investigates what spiritual life after racial totalitarianism means for the members of the ethnic group that constructed and maintained that very totalitarianism. Ultimately, the book asks how these new Afrikaner religious practices contribute to social solidarity and integration in a persistently segregated society, and what they can tell us about racial relations in the country today. This book will be of interest to scholars of religious and cultural anthropology and African studies"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1032028688 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781003185574 |