Research Catalog

Title

Challenging the state : churches as political actors in South Africa, 1980-1994 / Tristan Anne Borer.

Author

Borer, Tristan Anne, 1965-

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Description

xx, 289 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Uniform Title

Title from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Christianity and politics > South Africa > History > 20th century
• South Africa > Church history > 20th century
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1978-1989
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1989-1994

Genre/Form

• Church history
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-284) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Politics, Ideas, and Institutions: Explaining Church Change in South Africa -- The Churches and Legitimacy -- Patterns of Change -- Explaining Church Change -- Changing Religious Context: The Importance of Ideas -- Changing Political Context -- Institutional Context -- A Legacy of Protest and Challenge -- The Roots of Challenge -- The Formation of the Union of South Africa--1910 -- The Natives Land Act--1913 -- The Hertzog Bills--1932-1936 -- World War II and Its Effects--the 1940s -- Apartheid--1948 -- The Liberation Movement Responds -- The Turn to Armed Resistance--the 1960s -- Black Consciousness and Exile--the 1970s -- Changing Political Context: The Spiral of Involvement -- The Political Context: The 1980s -- Church Involvement in the 1980s -- Changing Religious Context: The Role of Ideas -- The Origins of Contextual Theology -- Catholic Social Thought -- The Christian Institute -- Black Theology -- The South African Council of Churches -- Overlapping Sources -- Theological Evolution: From Race to Class -- Contextual Theology -- Contextual Theology and the Spiral of Involvement -- Issues in Contextual Theology in the 1980s -- Apartheid Is a Heresy -- A Call to Prayer for an End to Unjust Rule -- The Kairos Document -- Post-Kairos Theological Development: Harare and Lusaka -- Theology and Violence -- Evidence of Influence -- The Theology of the SACC and SACBC -- Response to Contextual Theology -- Joint Statements and Actions -- Overlapping Roles -- The Institutional Context of Political Debates.

ISBN

0268008299 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98018608^

OCLC

• 38884313
• SCSB-12806946

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library