Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994.(Review) (book review)

Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994. By Tristan Anne Borer. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. 289p. $32.00 paper.

Borer sets out to study the influence of South African churches in the struggle to overthrow apartheid and to explain their change from making mild political statements to (in the final years of 1988-90) effectively carrying the civil disobedience campaign. For this task she chooses the two most significant bodies, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the South African Catholic Bishops' ...

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