Research Catalog

Title

Running with horses : reflections of an accidental politician / Allan Boesak.

Author

Boesak, Allan, 1945-

Publication

Cape Town : Joho, 2009.

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Details

Description

427 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• South Africa
• 1900-1999
• Boesak, Allan Aubrey
• Boesak, Allan, 1945-
• Zuid-Afrika
• Apartheid
• Protestantisme
• Politics and government
• South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century
• Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part One: Not a single Inch: Faith and politics -- Source of resistance and defiance: Radical Christianity and a Theology of refusal -- The black church, politics and the future: Responding to Biko and the children -- Divine obedience: An open letter to the Minister Justice -- Part TWO: Taking politics to the streets -- The road to Mitchell Plain: The birth of a movement and the Dawn of an Era -- Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea: A Christian response to the New Constitution -- All, here and now: The launch of the United Democratic Front -- Part Three: Raising a sign of hope -- Courage is contagious: The consequences of struggle -- Standing in threatened space: If this is Treason, I am guilty -- Raise a sign of hope: Address at the 'Cradock Four' Funeral -- Part Four: Coming Home? -- The morning after: Exiles, Inziles and the loss of treasure -- Prayer, Prophecy and Political Piety: An open letter to Minister Kader Asmal -- At the risk of chasing rainbows: Race, Recincilation and Justice in the rainbow nation -- Standing with God in his hour of grieving: Christians and Muslims living together in South Africa -- The trouble with small blankets: The ANC, SACP and Cosatu Alliance -- Was God in struggle?: Unremembering and the role of Faith in South Africa's struggle for liberation -- Naked in the Public Square: The politics of struggle funding -- A country not destined for destruction: The politics of hope or thr politics of delusion reflections 25 years after the launch of the United Democratic Front.

ISBN

• 9780980275483
• 0980275482

LCCN

2009481000

OCLC

• ocn430040254
• 430040254
• SCSB-1533150

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library