Secularism within the ANC in South Africa

南非非国大内部的世俗主义

• 批准号: 2613444
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2613444
• 关键词: Secularism; within; ANC; South; Africa

This study investigates why South Africa has a veryreligious population, and yet a politics that has (so far)remained secular. I focus on the African National Congress(ANC), the long-dominant political party, and the role ofreligion in their members' electioneering and debates aboutpublic policy at a branch-level. This study employs politicalethnography at six branches of the ANC over a year, as wellas an historical analysis of the changing relationshipbetween religion and politics in the ANC's history.The study of secularism is concerned with how thecategories of the religious and the non-religious are definedand negotiated. However, this scholarship has focused onthe US and Europe, with some (limited) coverage of theMiddle East and North Africa. There are still few studies ofsecularism in Sub-Saharan Africa - and this is especiallytrue of South Africa. This impoverishes theories ofsecularism, which are strained in application beyond 'theWest'.This study furthers a decolonial understanding ofsecularism in a post-colonial context that is significantlyunder-researched. It will further our understanding of thenuances of religion and African nationalism, both at presentand in the 20th century, as well as how the boundaries ofthe public sphere and private belief are negotiated beyondthe political and religious elite. It is the first study tocomprehensively investigate secularism in South Africathrough fieldwork, rather than archival research.

这项研究调查了为什么南非人口信奉宗教，但政治（迄今为止）仍然世俗化。我重点关注非洲人国民大会（ANC）这个长期占主导地位的政党，以及宗教在其成员竞选和分支机构公共政策辩论中的作用。这项研究采用了一年来对非洲人国民大会六个分支的政治民族志，并对非洲人国民大会历史上宗教与政治之间关系的变化进行了历史分析。世俗主义的研究关注的是如何定义和分析宗教和非宗教的类别。协商。然而，这项奖学金主要集中在美国和欧洲，部分（有限）覆盖中东和北非。对撒哈拉以南非洲地区世俗主义的研究仍然很少，尤其是南非。这使得世俗主义理论变得贫乏，这些理论在“西方”之外的应用中受到了限制。这项研究进一步推进了对后殖民背景下的世俗主义的非殖民性理解，而这一点的研究还远远不够。它将进一步加深我们对当前和 20 世纪宗教和非洲民族主义细微差别的理解，以及如何在政治和宗教精英之外协商公共领域和私人信仰的界限。这是第一项通过实地调查而不是档案研究来全面调查南非世俗主义的研究。