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Race and Reconciliation in South Africa

A Multicultural Dialogue in Comparative Perspective

Race and Reconciliation in South Africa( )
Editor: Cloete, G. Daan
Contribution by: Van Vugt, William E.
Botman, Russel H.
Cloete, Daan G.
Botha, M. Elaine
Degenaar, Johan
Kuperus, Tracy
Smith, R. Drew
Foreword by: Tutu, Desmond
Series title:Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory Ser.
ISBN:978-0-7391-0142-1
Publication Date:May 2000
Publisher:Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $106.00
Book Description:

In the mid-1990s the Truth and Reconciliation Commission disclosed its findings on the awful reality of the apartheid era in South Africa. The Commission inspired scholars from Europe, North America, and South Africa to convene a group of their own, to investigate in multicultural, scholarly dialogue the history, theology, philosophy, and politics of race and reconciliation in South Africa. This volume is the product of that important dialogue. And while the focus is the particular...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.96 x 9.44 x 0.69 Inches
Book Weight:0.04 Pounds
Author Biography
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Desmond Tutu was born October 7, 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal, South Africa. He attended Johannesburg Bantu High School. After leaving school he trained first as a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and graduated in 1954 from the University of South Africa.

After three years as a high school teacher he began to study theology, and was ordained as a priest in 1960. From 1962 to 1966 Tutu devoted his time to further theological study in England at King's College, eventually earning a Master's of Theology. From 1967 to 1972 he taught theology in South Africa before returning to England for three years as the assistant director of a theological institute in London. In 1975 he was appointed Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg, the first black to hold that position. From 1976 to 1978 he was Bishop of Lesotho, and in 1978 became the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.

Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 15, 1984 for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa. He was then elected Archbishop of Cape Town in April of 1986, the highest position in the South African Anglican Church. Tutu is also an honorary doctor of various universities in the USA, Britain and Germany.

He is the author of the best seller, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, with the Dalai Lama XIV and Douglas Carlton Abrams.

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