The Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth. ?Religion in South Africa?s past?, writes Dhammamegha Annie Leatt has been ?saturated by politics? and politics ?saturated by religion?. So how, she asks, was it possible for a new state to found itself without religious...
