Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Annika Björnsdotter Teppo

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Regional studies; Religious ethics; Eclectic & esoteric religions & belief systems; Society & culture: general; Regional geography

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Africa

This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid.

The end of South Africa’s apartheid system of racial and spatial segregation sparked wide-reaching social change as social, cultural, spatial and racial boundaries were transgressed and transformed. This book investigates how Afrikaners have mediated the country’s shifting boundaries within the realm of religion. For instance, one in every three Afrikaners used these new freedoms to leave the traditional Dutch Reformed Church (NGK), often for an entirely new religious affiliation within the Pentecostal or Charismatic churches, or New Religious Movements such as Wiccan neopaganism. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Western Cape area, the book investigates what spiritual life after racial totalitarianism means for the members of the ethnic group that constructed and maintained that very totalitarianism. Ultimately, the book asks how these new Afrikaner religious practices contribute to social solidarity and integration in a persistently segregated society, and what they can tell us about racial relations in the country today.

This book will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, social and cultural anthropology and African studies.

By: Annika Björnsdotter Teppo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032028699
ISBN 10: 1032028696
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Africa
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Annika Björnsdotter Teppo is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Dr. Teppo has also been granted the title of docent (Associate Professor) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, Finland.