Analysing transition narratives : Christian leaders in public life in post-apartheid South Africa

Getman, Eliza Jane

Analysing transition narratives : Christian leaders in public life in post-apartheid South Africa

Master Thesis

2004

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Religious Studies

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

The dynamic discourse between religion and public life is illustrated in South Africa in both the pre- and post-apartheid eras. Specifically, this relationship is manifested in the lives of a number of individuals who straddled both facets of society. This thesis centres on a social analysis of the journeys undertaken by thirteen men and women who held Christian faith and political commitment in each hand as the New South Africa emerged from the Old. In-depth interviews were conducted with all subjects using qualitative research methods based on an oral history approach. Subjects were asked to consider their faith identities and the ways in which their faith directed their involvement in the public arena.

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Bibliography: leaves 131-134.

Keywords

Religious Studies

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