South Africa at 30
What Lessons for Covenantal Pluralism from a Laboratory of Ubuntu and Nation Building
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6129170 |
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| Authors | Ebrahim Rasool (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Faith & International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1931-7743 • E-ISSN: 1557-0274 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15570274.2024.2414581 |
| OpenAlex | W4404702831 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
South Africa’s 30 years of post-apartheid democracy are replete with lessons in constructing a paradigm of covenantal pluralism out of the conduct of struggle against the injustice of apartheid, the management of the transition to democracy, and the imagination of a constitutional governance based on the finest values. In every seminal moment on this path there was a fluidity between the political, the societal, and the religious, which became the foundations first, of reconciliation and then of co-existence of historical antagonists. Such counter-instinctive behavior was germane to the African philosophy of human interdependence—Ubuntu—which was inscribed into the post-apartheid constitutional order as the glue for a fragmented society, and an antidote to populism
Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development
| Highly cited | No |
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