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Regulation of Religion in the Rainbow Nation: The Situatedness of Religious Groups in Post-apartheid South Africa

Regulation of Religion in the Rainbow Nation: The Situatedness of Religious Groups in Post-apartheid South Africa

Schmidt, Max

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General Sociology

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ISBN10: 3346035360
ISBN13: 9783346035363
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Jan 14 2020
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: 1.0, University of Leipzig (Institute of Sociology; Institute of Political Science), language: English, abstract: 25 years after the de jure end of apartheid, the notion of religious freedom is highly contested in South Africa (SA). With a population of roughly 55 million inhabitants (CIA 2018), SA is generally well-known for its religious plurality, as entailed in the term rainbow nation. In the last few years, however, repeatedly unusual practices called for attention that supposedly abused the belief systems of congregants. According to the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL), some congregants, for example, were fed living rats and snakes or asked to drink petrol by their religious leaders (CRL 2017). This thesis aims to explore the case of SA as a prime example of how possible limits to rights related to the freedom of religion are societally negotiated and religious practices politicised. More precisely, the following research questions, as two sides of the same coin, will be scrutinised: (1) How do different social groups attempt to negotiate the extent to which the notion of freedom of religion can be stretched? (2) How do these groups negotiate when religious practices must come to an end in order to protect the earthly well-being of congregants? In order to answer these questions, a content analysis of the Report of the Hearings on the Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of People's Belief Systems (henceforth the Report), published by the CRL in 2017, as well as of affiliated documents and focal examples of media coverage was conducted. Additionally, I hold an interview with the CRL's Deputy Chairperson to shed more light both onto the self-understanding of the Commission and the background against which its Report was published. The CRL was chosen as the main unit of analysis as it is one of

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