Global Citizenship, Cultural Citizenship and World Religions in Religion Education pdf

Global Citizenship, Cultural Citizenship

and World Religions in Religion Education

David Chidester

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Series Editor: Dr Wilmot James, Executive Director: Social Cohesion and Integration,

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About the Author

David Chidester is a Visiting Fellow at the Social Cohesion and

Integration Research Programme of the HSRC. He is Professor of

Comparative Religion at the University of Cape Town, Director of

the Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (ICRSA),

and Co-Director of the International Human Rights Exchange. He

is author or editor of fifteen books in the study of religion, including

Religions of South Africa (1992), Shots in the Streets: Violence and

Religion in South Africa (1992), Savage Systems: Colonialism and

Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (1996), and Christianity: A

Global History (2000).

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