TY - JOUR
AU - Dorrell, Jimmy
AB - Book Reviews oftheRightsofCultural,Religious,andLinguisticCommunities(secs. 181(1)(c) and 185-86). The Constitutional Court has on several occa- sions emphasized the vital importance to the State of religion as a component of South Africa’s constitutional democracy. In Minister of Home Affairs v. Fourie; Lesbian and Gay Equality Project v. Minister of Home Affairs, 2006 (1) SA 524; 2006 (3) BCLR 355 (CC) par. 93, Justice Albie Sachs states: South Africa is therefore not a secular State but can perhaps best be depictedasareligiouslyneutralState.Thatistosay,religionisnotapolitical taboo, but the Constitution requires evenhandedness in official dealings with religion and religious institutions. South African law thus, for example, permits religious observances in state and state-aided schools, subject to the principle of voluntary participation in such observances and affording to all religions with substantial support in the concerned school district a proportional share in conducting or participating in the religious ceremonies. Itshould benotedinconclusionthatalthoughForsterfavorsasecular state, he defines it (p. 76, citing Martin Prozesky) as a religiously neutral state; that is, one that guarantees “freedom of belief and asso- ciated practice for all belief systems, such as all the country’s reli- gions and that none of them has preferential status in law.” Between Capital and Cathedral is an excellent and thought- provoking anthology 
TI - Keeping Faith in Faith-Based Organizations: A Practical Theology of Salvation Army Health Ministry
JF - Journal of Church and State
DO - 10.1093/jcs/cst124
DA - 2014-03-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/keeping-faith-in-faith-based-organizations-a-practical-theology-of-fTJaoXSTL3
SP - 153
EP - 155
VL - 56
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -