Kürger, J S Along Edges - Religion in South Africa: Bushman, Chrisian, Buddhist

Emeitus H.C Waetjen

doi:10.4102/hts.v55i4.1684

Abstract

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is an acclaimed journal with broad coverage that promotes multidisciplinary, religious, and biblical aspects of studies in the international theological arena. The journal’s publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported.

Highlights

This book is a bold venture in its exploration of a new syncretistic religion
Its learned author sets out to examine religious rememberings and visionings in the historical and socia-cultural context of Southern Africa in order to offer an intellectual prolegomenon to a South African spirituality for a reconstitution of religion and religious studies in South Africa
To fmd and give expression to an as yet none-existent, new and unique experience, we need to return to the old The quest for the roots of South African religion implies reflection on the origin of religion as such, including the reconstruction of its very basics, in the chronological and in the ontological sense: how the various historical religions relate to the human quest for meaning!" KrUger maintains that the deepest level of crisis in South Africa is religious, and with a Rousseau-like orientation he combines personal reflection and empirical scholarship in order to explore the spaces between religions: Christian, Buddhist, Bushman, for the purpose of engendering a provisional synthesis of a contextually relevant, pluralistically conditioned religion

Summary

Introduction

This book is a bold venture in its exploration of a new syncretistic religion. Its learned author sets out to examine religious rememberings and visionings in the historical and socia-cultural context of Southern Africa in order to offer an intellectual prolegomenon to a South African spirituality for a reconstitution of religion and religious studies in South Africa. KrOger, J S Along Edges - Religion in South Africa: Bushman, Christian, Buddhist

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