The original publication is available at http://www.ve.org.zaThe paper investigated religious and social transformations within a specific religious tradition
in South Africa. After clarifying the charged concept of ‘transformation’, the authors showed
that transformation is about more than changed systems and structures, for, on a deeper level,
it is also about the change in relationships and attitudes between the different cultural groups
in South Africa. The argument was supported by making use of data from the SA reconciliation
barometer 2010 and the 2009 Transformation audit. In the next part of the paper, the authors took
a closer look at the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) as a case in point. The basic question they
asked was how do these social transformations affect the religious transformations within
the DRC and vice versa? By making use of Mary Douglas’s concept of ‘the enclave’ it was
proposed that a new enclave developed in the DRC after 1994, the characteristics of which
were investigated in the remainder of the paper.Publisher's versio
