Table of Contents

Preface / vii
Audrey R. Chapman and Bernard Spong Introduction: Religion and Reconciliation in South Africa / 1
Audrey R. Chapman INTERVIEWS, Conducted and edited by Bernard Spong
Protestants / 19
Roman Catholics / 175
African Indigenous Churches / 210
Orthodox / 215
Jewish / 222
Muslim / 238
Other Religious Traditions / 252 ESSAYS AND PERSPECTIVES The Role of the Church in Promoting Reconciliation in Post-TRC South Africa / 269
Hugo van der Merwe Perspectives on Reconciliation Within the Religious Community / 282
Audrey R. Chapman APPENDIX
The Challenge of Reconciliation / 305
Religion Census 1996 / 311
An Open Letter to Pastors of All Churches in South Africa / 312 Index / 315

About the Author

Audrey R. Chapman serves as the director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is the former director of the Program of Dialogue for Ethics for AAAS. She works closely with the United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights and the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

Reverend Bernard Spong is a native of the United Kingdom who came to South Africa as a missionary in 1963. In 1977 he began a media training organization working alongside the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and in 1991 became the communications director of the SACC for the years of negotiation and transition in South Africa.