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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.
Contents
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
