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Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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 studies, social and cultural anthropology and African studies
Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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 studies, social and cultural anthropology and African studies
Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political
economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian
analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist
governmentality. Looking at South Africa’s stalled agrarian
transition through the lens of biopolitics as well as class analysis
can make visible otherwise disregarded connections between
processes of agrarian change and broader contests about the
terms of social and economic incorporation into the South African
social and political order before, during and after Apartheid. This
can bring a fresh sense of the broader political implications of the
course of agrarian change in South Africa, and helps contextualise
the enduring salience of land as a flashpoint within South Africa’s
unresolved democratic transition