Race and Reconciliation in South Africa A Multicultural Dialogue in Comparative Perspective

by Vugt, Van William E.; Cloete, Daan G.; Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond M.; Botha, M Elaine; Botman, H Russel; Cloete, G Daan; Degenaar, Johan; De Grunchy, John W.; du Plessis, Lourens M.; Jafta, L D.; Kuperus, Tracy; Meiring, Pieter; Smith, R Drew; Tutu

• ISBN13: 9780739101575
• ISBN10: 0739101579
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-10
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In the mid-1990s the Truth and Reconciliation Commission disclosed its findings on the awful reality of the apartheid era in South Africa. The Commission inspired scholars from Europe, North America, and South Africa to convene a group of their own, to investigate in multicultural, scholarly dialogue the history, theology, philosophy, and politics of race and reconciliation in South Africa. This volume is the product of this important dialogue.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Desmond Tutu
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	xi
William E. Van Vugtand
G. Daan Cloete
South Africa and Paul's Letter to the Galations: A Struggle with Ethnicity and Race	1	(18)
G. Daan Cloete
British Immigration during the Nineteenth Century: The American and South African Experience	19	(18)
William E. Van Vugt
The Chastening of the English-Speaking Churches in South Africa	37	(16)
John W. De Gruchy
Ecclesiastical Racism and the Politics of Confession in the United States and South Africa	53	(24)
R. Drew Smith
Building a Pluralist Democracy: An Examination of Religious Associations in South Africa and Zimbabwe	77	(28)
Tracy Kuperus
The Church Partitioned or the Church Reconciled? South Africa's Thelogical and Historical Dilemma	105	(16)
H. Russel Botman
Christian Scholarship for Reconciliation? The Free University of Amsterdam and Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education	121	(20)
M. Elaine Botha
South Africa's Bill of Rights: Reconciliation and a Just Society	141	(14)
Lourens M. du Plessis
Multiculturalism: How Can the Human World Live Its Difference?	155	(16)
Johan Degenaar
Eco-Human Justice and Well-Being	171	(16)
Lizo D. Jafta
Truth and Reconciliation: The South African Experience	187	(14)
Pieter Meiring
Index	201	(12)
About the Contributors	213