Focus 62 - August 2011 - Religion & Society

Abdulkader Tayob - Islam and Democracy in South Africa

Anthony Egan, S.J. - Does God Have a Vote? Faith, Democratic Politics and the Secular Age

Review Article: Claudia B Braude - Stones Against the Mirror by Hugh Lewin

David Bilchitz - The Tension Between Freedom of Religion and Equality in Liberal Constitutionalism

Focus 62 - August 2011 - Religion & Society

This edition of Focus is dedicated to exploring some of the relationships between religious belief and society. In a modern and supposedly secular age, religious belief and practice have a curious and intriguing persistence – the assumption being that religion has no real place in a modern or modernising world: when it occurs, it is, no doubt, a legacy of some sort of archaic sensibility.

Francis Antonie - Editorial

Francis Davis - “Doing God” and Policy: In Search of Social Capital and Innovation

Iraj Abedian - Religion and Social Progress: Beyond the Clash of Extremes

Chipkin & Leatt - Religion and Revival in post-apartheid South Africa

Review: Lewis Mash - Helen Suzman by Gillian Godsell

Maria Frahm-Arp - Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity and the Making of Female Managers

Tribute: Richard Steyn - In Memoriam: Patrick Laurence

Sibusiso Masondo - African Traditional Religion in the face of Secularism in South Africa

Review: William Gumede - Liberal Democracy and Peace in South Africa by Pierre du Toit and Hennie Kotze