عنوان

Deification, Demonization and Dispossession

شماره

LA113253

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Deification, Demonization and Dispossession

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Allan A. Boesak

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Many regard South Africa's reconciliation process as a model for a search for peace in and among nations. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission played an admirable part in this. However, problems remain in continuing and completing this reconciliation project. For many the failure to secure social justice through reconciliation remains one challenge. At issue is also how South Africans deal with their fractured and painful past. This article revisits issues of culpability and responsibility by asking whether a primary obstacle towards reconciliation might be that South Africans, instead of taking personal and collective responsibility for reconciliation, have hidden behind two major and completely opposite South African figures: Nelson Mandela and Eugene De Kock. It is argued that the 'deification' of Mandela and the 'demonization' of De Kock pose an important obstacle for the acceptance of culpability and responsibility for addressing historic wrongs with a view to true reconciliation. Many regard South Africa's reconciliation process as a model for a search for peace in and among nations. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission played an admirable part in this. However, problems remain in continuing and completing this reconciliation project. For many the failure to secure social justice through reconciliation remains one challenge. At issue is also how South Africans deal with their fractured and painful past. This article revisits issues of culpability and responsibility by asking whether a primary obstacle towards reconciliation might be that South Africans, instead of taking personal and collective responsibility for reconciliation, have hidden behind two major and completely opposite South African figures: Nelson Mandela and Eugene De Kock. It is argued that the 'deification' of Mandela and the 'demonization' of De Kock pose an important obstacle for the acceptance of culpability and responsibility for addressing historic wrongs with a view to true reconciliation.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

420-444

عنوان

International Journal of Public Theology

شماره جلد

8/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7320

اصطلاح موضوعی

culpability

اصطلاح موضوعی

deification

اصطلاح موضوعی

demonization

اصطلاح موضوعی

reconciliation

اصطلاح موضوعی

responsibility

اصطلاح موضوعی

suffering

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Allan A. Boesak

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15697320-12341366

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y