1st Edition
Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa
By Annika Björnsdotter Teppo
Copyright 2022
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Mixed Blessings
Chapter 1: The Afrikaners and Their Church
Chapter 2: Performing Whiteness
Chapter 3: Cracked Laer
Chapter 4: The Changing Religious Scene in Stellenbosch
Chapter 5: Madams and Masters of Magic
Chapter 6: "We Kept Everything, and We Changed Everything"
Conclusion: South African Miracles
Index
Biography
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.
