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Religious ethics, capital punishment and reconciliation in a new South Africa
Bibliography: leaves 147-155.
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| author | Imhanwa, Jude Onos |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8748 Religious ethics, capital punishment and reconciliation in a new South Africa Imhanwa, Jude Onos Chidester, David Religious Studies Bibliography: leaves 147-155. The new democratic South Africa is a society that is bedevilled by violent crime. The reintroduction of the death penalty, in the view of many of the victims of violent crime and a section of the politicians, seems to be the only solution. This thesis: "Religious Ethics, Capital Punishment and Reconciliation in a New South Africa," contends that reintroducing capital punishment is not a solution to the problem of violent crime, for two principal reasons: It violates the principle of legitimate pluralism as it infringes on the right of religious and cultural freedom, and it is incompatible with the notion of reconciliation. First, the thesis discusses the justifications of punishment from the perspectives of reason and faith. Then, it goes further to look at the seriousness and causes of violent crime in the new South Africa. In addition, it presents the teachings of five religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and African traditional religion - on capital punishment and reconciliation, comparatively. In the concluding part, it makes an evaluation of crime, capital punishment and reconciliation. This thesis identifies the root cause of violent crime as "poverty", defined as "lack of'. It ends, therefore, by suggesting that the solution to violent crime in the new South Africa is reconciliation as it is the solution to "poverty" as the root cause of violent crime. 2014-10-24T07:32:34Z 2014-10-24T07:32:34Z 2001 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8748 eng application/pdf Department of Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Religious ethics, capital punishment and reconciliation in a new South Africa |
| title_full | Religious ethics, capital punishment and reconciliation in a new South Africa |
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