Die Mehrheit der Beiträge geht auf Symposien zurück, die 1997 an der Universität Kapstadt und Hamburg abgehalten wurden. Inhalt: I. South Africa in a Time of Transition: Challenges in the Field of Religion and Culture: Abdulkader Tayob: The Function of Islam in the South African Political Process: Defining a Community in a Nation (15-27); Johann Kinghorn: Aspects of the Role of the White Afrikaans Component in the Transition in South Africa (29-49); Ezra Tisani: The Human Factor in Oral History as Agents of Social Transformation (51-57). II. Religion and Post-Apartheid South Africa: James Cochrane: Polity, Probity and Piety: Religion in the Making of Public Policy (61-67); Phillip Dexter: Perceptions, imaginings, and practices of collective identities in the transition: National identities and ethnicity in the Western Cape (69-78); Abdulkader Tayob: Managing Cultural Diversity in a Democratic South Africa: Is there a Surplus Value to the National Project? (79-89); Nokuzola Mndende: From underground Praxis to Recognized Religion: Challenges facing African Religions (91-98); Cornelia Roux: Paradigm Shift in Teaching Religion (99-109); Gordon Mitchell: Educational Change and Moral Development (111-118); Wolfram Weisse / Peter Körner / Ursula Günther / Jürgen Ossenbrügge / Erhard Kamphausen / Andreas Heuser: Religion and Politics in the Transition-process of South Africa: Outline of a Research Project (119-137); Heribert Adam: The Presence of the Past: South Africa's Truth Commission as a Model? (139-158).