The SA Constitution and religious freedom : perverter of preserver or religion's contribution to the public debate on morality?

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dc.contributor.authorFourie, Pieteren_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-23T13:47:31Z
dc.date.available2013-01-23T13:47:31Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.descriptionCITATION: Fourie, P. 2003. The SA Constitution and religious freedom : perverter of preserver or religion's contribution to the public debate on morality? Scriptura, 82:94-107, doi:10.7833/82-0-901.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://scriptura.journals.ac.za
dc.description.abstractThe South African Constitution should be interpreted differently from the North American one, or else religion will forfeit any role as a partner in the public debate on morality. The history of interpretation and implementation of the North American constitution serves as an example of a secular scenario that we as South Africans should try and avoid. American jurisprudence on the First Amendment, by which religious freedom in that country is guaranteed, led to a complete separation between religion and the state as representative of the public sphere. This is the result of so-called “secular individualism”. The text of the South-African Constitution allows for an interpretation whereby the rights of groups, also religious, contrary to those of individuals only, are recognised. That allows better for the diversity of a pluralistic democracy as in South Africa. However, tolerance and cultural openness, as active values, are needed to prevent the formation of a theocratic dictatorship, like we had under the previous regime in South Africa. Seen from this perspective, the Constitution is not a perverter but a preserver of religion's right to partake in the public debate on moralityen_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/901
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent14 pages
dc.identifier.citationFourie, P. 2003. The SA Constitution and religious freedom : perverter of preserver or religion's contribution to the public debate on morality? Scriptura, 82:94-107, doi:10.7833/82-0-901.
dc.identifier.doi10.7833/82-0-901
dc.identifier.issn2305-445X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/77937
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDepartment of Old and New Testament, Stellenbosch University
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyright
dc.subject.lcshFreedom of religion -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshClergy -- Legal status, laws, etc.en_ZA
dc.subject.lcshConstitutional law -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleThe SA Constitution and religious freedom : perverter of preserver or religion's contribution to the public debate on morality?en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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