Togetherness in South Africa : : religious perspectives on racism, xenophobia and economic inequality / / edited by J.A. du Rand, J.M. Vorster, N. Vorster.

Race and inequality have always been sensitive topics in South African society due to its colonial past, diverse social composition and apartheid legacy of legal discrimination against people on the basis of their skin colour. Racial tensions seem to be escalating in South African society and distur...

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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (338 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: The historical and recent sociopolitical context for considering racism and related concepts in South Africa / Theuns Eloff
  • Chapter 2: Distorted racial identities in postapartheid South Africa : a reformed perspective on constructing authentic human identities / N. Vorster
  • Chapter 3: Racism in South Africa : are we at a tipping point? / J.M. Vorster
  • Chapter 4: Xenophobia in the seductive slipstream of racism / J.A. du Rand
  • Chapter 5: How about the biblical GPS on our way to xenophilia instead of xenophobia? / J.A. du Rand
  • Chapter 6: Christianity at war with racism in South Africa / Dirk van der Merwe
  • Chapter 7: The predatory nature of hate speech betrays attribution biases within a South African context / Ferdi P. Kruger
  • Chapter 8: #Feesmustfall from Belhar to Accra : a postcolonial terrain of struggle for economic justice? / Reginald W. Nel
  • Chapter 9: A global bioethics of equality in health research : a broad Protestant and global bioethical perspective on equality and tuberculosis in South Africa / Riaan Rheeder.