Title Afrikaners and the boundaries of faith in post-apartheid South Africa / Annika Björnsdotter Teppo

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 184 pages) Series Routledge contemporary South Africa Routledge contemporary South Africa. Contents 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Afrikaners -- Religious life -- South Africa Freedom of religion -- South Africa SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural RELIGION / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations Freedom of religion Social conditions SUBJECT South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004238 Subject South Africa Form Electronic book LC no. 2021016782 ISBN 9781000441680 1000441687 9781003185574 1003185576 1000441636 9781000441635

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