Religion Unplugged

South Africa Creates Controversial Religious Oversight Committee

The South African government investigated religious groups and found some made individuals eat grass, consume petrol, and ...
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In South America, African-inspired religions gain more followers

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Thousands of devotees of different African-based religions on Friday flocked to the waterfront of the Uruguayan capital, part of an annual Feb. 2 offering to the Yoruba goddess ...
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Christianity is changing in South Africa as pentecostal and indigenous churches grow – what’s behind the trend

Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Studies ...
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What is a secular state? How South Africa has tried to separate religion and politics

Calvin D. Ullrich receives funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The shifting relationship between state and religion has historically been ...
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Opinion | How religion shapes a free and democratic South Africa

South Africa is a secular state in a very special way. We make room for secular, intellectual, cultural and religious views in our public sphere. We welcome expressions of these different voices in ...