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The State of Secularism: Religion, Tradition and Democracy in South Africa by Dhammamegha Annie Leatt

The State of Secularism: Religion, Tradition and Democracy in South Africa by Dhammamegha Annie Leatt

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ISBN: 9781776140572

Wits University Press, September 2017

248 pages, Paperback

A history of global political secularism by comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa with the post-apartheid state focussing on an analysis of tensions between secularity (in South Africa’s Constitution and judicial foundations) and increasing non-secularity (in its embrace of traditional authorities and customary law)