Stephen W. Martin

Faith Negotiating Loyalties

An Exploration of South African Christianity through a Reading of the Theology of H. Richard Niebuhr

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Produktbeschreibung

Faith Negotiating Loyalties draws readers into the world of Christian faith in South Africa and the question of loyalties in the new post-apartheid state. It carries out its investigation in two parts. Part one examines Christian faith and loyalty during the first nation-building exercise following the South African War, positioning the creation and contestation of three Christianities corresponding to three nationalisms, each of which imagined South Africa in a particular way, shaping faith accordingly. The idea of an undifferentiated South African Christianity gives way to contesting and contested Christianities, nationalism gives way to nationalisms, and faith emerges in tension with and in criticism of these loyalties. Part two discusses the American theologian H. Richard Niebuhr in South Africa. Three kinds of faith in his wittings are set forth: social faith, radial faith, and reconstructing faith. Contextualized within the South African story, Niebuhr's ideas suggest self and society as constituted by hybridities and suspended in a web of loyalties. Faith Negotiating Loyalties suggests the message for faith in a post-apartheid South Africa is the importance of negotiating covenants which allow for crossings, hybridities, and contestations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780761841111
• ISBN-10: 0761841113
• Artikelnr.: 24656525

Autorenporträt

By Stephen W. Martin

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Part 1: Exploring South African Christianity Chapter 2 Prologue:
Faith, Nationalism and Loyalty in South Africa Chapter 3 1: South African
Nationalism: The One and the Many Chapter 4 2: Afrikaner Nationalism: Myth
and Mobilization Chapter 5 3: African Nationalism: Mission and Politics
Chapter 6 Interlude: Reflection and Transnation Chapter 7 Part 2: Reading
H. Richard Niebuhr in South Africa Chapter 9 5: Entangling Faith and Social
Ideal Chapter 10 6: Radical Faith and the Crisis of American Christianity
Chapter 10 7: Radical Faith in History and Community Chapter 11 8: Faith
Engaging Culture Chapter 12 9: Reconstructing Faith and the Renewal of
Covenant Chapter 13 Conclusion: Point(s) of Return