Transforming Post-Apartheid South Africa Through Shared Religious Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3535581 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nuraan Davids (0000-0002-7588-5814, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1330 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel15111330 |
| OpenAlex | W4403890958 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Ideas about shared religious education are in need of further exploration in post-apartheid South Africa. This is necessary, considering the contributions from faith communities in their shared resistance to apartheid. While some sectors of the Christian community, and particularly the Dutch Reformed Church provided a religious justification for apartheid, other denominations, together with Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu communities struggled against this white supremacist ideology. In other ways, the neglect of the potential of shared religious education provides an apt commentary on how some within-faith communities responded to a democracy by retreating into faith identities, as made explicit in the proliferation of faith-based schools. It follows, however, that if religious communities can mobilise together to resist the apartheid state, then it should be possible for these same communities to unite to work towards the kind of transformed society envisioned in their struggle against apartheid. Hence, the interest of this article: if faith-based schools are an inevitable manifestation of democratic and pluralistic societies, then what can these schools share in terms of content and ethos towards advancing democratic values? How might a shared religious education facilitate and sustain the reform measures, necessary for social transformation in South Africa
Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Gender Studies · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools
Prophetic Mission of Faith Communities during Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994
Ironies of Christian Presence in Southern Africa
Plurality and Constitutionalism
Ukuthwasa in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
Religious education for political thinking and citizenship
Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
Interfaith Resistance in South Africa
The role of religious leaders in anti-Apartheid mobilisation
The conundrum of religious schools in twenty-first-century Europe
The Crisis Model for Managing Change in African Christianity
Three Islamic strands in the South African struggle for justice
The Church and the Struggle for South Africa
South African Jews and Apartheid
Apartheid, Religious Pluralism, and the Evolution of the Right to Religious Freedom in S outh A frica
Migration and Muslim Identities
Muslim schooling in South Africa and the need for an educational crisis
Global Flows, Local Appropriations
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |