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

by William E. Van Vugt professor emeritus, Calvin University; author of Portrait of an English (Editor), Daan G. Cloete (Editor), Archbishop Emeritus Desmond M. Tutu (Foreword by), M Elaine Botha (Contribution by), H Russel Botman (Contribution by) William E. Van Vugt professor emeritus

Overview

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 that important dialogue. And while the focus is the particular environment of South Africa, the contributors work within a comparative perspective, using examples from other nations and cultures to explore that which makes South Africa unique. Ultimately, the book aims to offer not only a better understanding of the depth of injustice in South Africa's past, but also a deeper appreciation for the achievement of the present and the promise of the future—in South Africa and in every other multiethnic region in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739101575
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	05/10/2000
Series:	Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.82(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

William E. Van Vugt is Professor of History at Calvin College. G. Daan Cloete is Professor of New Testament at the University of the Western Cape.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 South Africa and Paul's Letter to the Galations: A Struggle with Ethnicity and Race
Chapter 4 British Immigration during the Nineteenth Century: The American and South African Experience
Chapter 5 The Chastening of the English-Speaking Churches in South Africa
Chapter 6 Ecclesiastical Racism and the Politics of Confession in the United States and South Africa
Chapter 7 Building Democracy: An Examination of Religious Associations in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Chapter 8 The Church Partitioned or the Church Reconciled? South Africa's Theological and Historical Dilemma
Chapter 9 Christian Scholarship for Reconciliation? The Free University of Amsterdam and Potchesfstroom University for Christian Higher Education
Chapter 10 South Africa's Bill of Rights: Reconciliation and a Just Society
Chapter 11 Multiculturalism: How Can the Human World Live Its Difference?
Chapter 12 Eco-Human Justice and Well-Being
Chapter 13 Truth and Reconciliation: The South African Experience

What People are Saying About This

Desmond Tutu

This book makes a contribution to a better understanding of racism and injustice in South Africa, and a better understanding of what South Africans have achieved in the past several years. I thank William Van Vugt, Daan Cloete, and the other contributors for their work.
— Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Editorial Reviews

This book makes a contribution to a better understanding of racism and injustice in South Africa, and a better understanding of what South Africans have achieved in the past several years. I thank William Van Vugt, Daan Cloete, and the other contributors for their work.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond M. Tutu

This book makes a contribution to a better understanding of racism and injustice in South Africa, and a better understanding of what South Africans have achieved in the past several years. I thank William Van Vugt, Daan Cloete, and the other contributors for their work.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu