Challenging the State: Churches As Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994

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Overview

This comparative study explores the roles played by two religious organizations in the anti-apartheid movement--the South African Council of Churches and the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference--and shows how these organizations adopted new self-identities, which resulted in an expansion of their activities from making mild political statements to leading civil disobedience campaigns.

Tristan Anne Borer seeks to understand why religious organizations change in their relationship with the political world, why they change in different ways, and what the consequences of those changes are. She examines the factors that contributed to increased ...

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This comparative study explores the roles played by two religious organizations in the anti-apartheid movement--the South African Council of Churches and the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference--and shows how these organizations adopted new self-identities, which resulted in an expansion of their activities from making mild political statements to leading civil disobedience campaigns.

Tristan Anne Borer seeks to understand why religious organizations change in their relationship with the political world, why they change in different ways, and what the consequences of those changes are. She examines the factors that contributed to increased politicization in both of these South African organizations, explains why one--the SACC--became more highly politicized than the other, and tells how the unraveling of apartheid in 1990 forced them to reevaluate their roles.

Borer offers a theoretical framework for understanding how religious organizations become overtly political actors. She argues that an increasingly repressive political milieu and new religious ideas encouraging political action explain the direction of change, while the institutional context of political debates explains the degree of change. Combining an analysis of political change and the dynamics within church organizations, she demonstrates how these factors interact with theological developments.

Challenging the State examines issues in the field of religion and politics that until now have not been adequately addressed, particularly showing how new religious ideas become embedded in church organizations. By synthesizing external and internal explanations of why churches change, it marks an important study of how they come to challenge authoritarian regimes.

About the Author:

Tristan Anne Borer is Assistant Professor of Government at Connecticut College and is the author of several articles on South Africa.

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A study of religious activism, political change, and the anti- apartheid struggle in South Africa. Borer (government, Connecticut College) looks at the institutional and political contexts of church change, the roots of the anti-apartheid movement from 1910 to 1948, church involvement in the 1980s, issues in contextual theology in the 1980s, and the new identities and changing political contexts in South Africa in the 1990s. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Acronyms
1 Politics, Ideas, and Institutions: Explaining Church Change in South Africa 1
The Churches and Legitimacy 2
Patterns of Change 4
Explaining Church Change 8
2 A Legacy of Protest and Challenge 21
The Roots of Challenge 22
The Liberation Movement Responds 32
The Turn to Armed Resistance - the 1960s 37
Black Consciousness and Exile - the 1970s 39
3 Changing Political Context: The Spiral of Involvement 44
The Political Context: The 1980s 44
Church Involvement in the 1980s 51
4 Changing Religious Context: The Role of Ideas 83
The Origins of Contextual Theology 85
Theological Evolution: From Race to Class 98
Contextual Theology 99
5 Contextual Theology and the Spiral of Involvement 105
Issues in Contextual Theology in the 1980s 105
Evidence of Influence 115
Overlapping Roles 124
6 The Institutional Context of Political Debates 128
The SACC and SACBC: A Difference in Type 129
Decision-Making Structures and Their Consequences 135
Ties between the SACC and Its Member Churches 142
The Race Factor 146
International Linkages 151
State Repression: SACC versus SACBC 160
7 South Africa in the 1990s: New Contexts, New Identities 167
Changing Political Context 168
Church Response to a New Political Context 172
Changing Religious Context 179
A New Institutional Context 198
Where Have the Prophets Gone? An Update on Actors and Events 204
A Note on Primary Sources 209
Notes 211
Bibliography 269
Index 285

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