Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-, Teppo..

Name: Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-, Teppo..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South AfricaAuthor(s): Annika Bjrnsdotter Teppo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032028682, 978-1032028682\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid.\n\nThe end of South Africas 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 countrys 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 We.