Faith Negotiating Loyalties: An Exploration of South African Christianity through a Reading of the Theology of H. Richard Niebuhr

by Stephen W. Martin

Faith Negotiating Loyalties draws readers into the world of Christian faith in South Africa and the question of loyalties in the new post-apartheid state. It carries out its investigation in two parts. Part one examines Christian faith and loyalty during the first nation-building exercise following the South African War, positioning the creation and contestation of three Christianities corresponding to three nationalisms, each of which imagined South...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761841113
• ISBN13: 9780761841111
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"