RT Article
T1 The New Religious Political Right in Neo-Apartheid South Africa
JF Religion & theology
VO 28
IS 3/4
SP 153
OP 178
A1 Dube, Siphiwe Ignatius
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1782552391
AB This article argues that, in similar ways that scholars such as Kaye (1987) and Apple (1990) have respectively demonstrated how post 1970s America and Britain fused the neo-liberal discourse of free markets with the neo-conservative Christian discourse of moral rightness to found a New Right, we can apply this analytical model in post-apartheid/neo-apartheid South Africa. The aim of this analytical comparison is to support the broad claim that the article makes about the rise of the New Right in contemporary South Africa as directly related to the fusion of neo-Pentecostal Christianity with neoliberal economics in very salient ways. Using discourse analysis, the article demonstrates how the New Right in South Africa also draws from the language of crisis to justify a response that brings together the interlocking of race, religion, and neoliberalism. The paper’s main argument is that, a different type of New Right is emerging in current day South Africa, one that is not simply the purview of whitenationalism, but has main appeal also within the black middle-class.
K1 Religious Political
K1 New Right
K1 Neo-pentecostalism
K1 middle-class
K1 Crisis
K1 Black Conservatism
DO 10.1163/15743012-bja10028