Liturgy and the public square : from inauthentic workshop to credible witness

Gaum, Laurie

Liturgy and the public square : from inauthentic workshop to credible witness

Master Thesis

2002

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Religious Studies

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

Through a literature study into the historic-philosophical roots of what John de Gruchy calls the privatisation of piety, the origins of this privatised faith to Enlightenment thinking and the individualism and secularism that came along with it are traced. Indications are found that, especially during the later phases of apartheid, the value-free mentality that accompanies modernism the breeding ground for a status quo religion. What Willie Jonker calls the Second Enlightenment, along with the influence of the Second World War, were further precipitated in the information of apartheid policy.

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Bibliography: leaves 70-76.

Keywords

Religious Studies

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