Religion and State - Development Cooperation : A German-South African Dialogue on Historical and Current Challenges.

Intro -- Religion and State: Development Cooperation -- Introduction -- Section I - Challenges posed by global changes and pandemics -- Horst Köhler -- Africa and Europe: a chance for a new start? -- The impact of Covid-19 - and other pandemics -- Mcebisi Jonas -- We need to rethink (just about) everything -- Zwelini Mkhize -- COVID-19: our challenges and partnerships with the religious sector -- Thabo Makgoba -- Resilience and renewal - the role of faith in the response to HIV -- Heinrich Bedford-Strohm -- Church and public theology in times of a pandemic -- Reinhard Marx -- Global Effort in Solidarity - COVID -19 -- Marlene Mahokoto -- Tsantsabane Cares - an emergency food security partnership -- Section II - Religion and state: between cooption and Cooperation -- Church perspectives -- Reinhard Marx -- Holistic Development: Requirements for Development Cooperation in the Age of Globalization -- Thabo Makgoba -- 25 years of democracy in South Africa: the role of churches and religious communities in overcoming apartheid, reconciliation and nation building -- Nelis Janse van Rensburg -- The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) approach to diaconal work: History is always a long story -- Heinrich Bedford-Strohm -- Religion and State: Between Separation and Cooperation - a German perspective -- Sithembele Sipuka -- Religion and state: between separation and cooperation - a South African perspective -- Political and government perspectives -- Johannes Singhammer -- Religion and state: perspectives for Germany -- Bernhard Felmberg -- Religion and development - opportunities and limitations of cooperation -- Lindiwe Makubalo -- The cooperation between state and church in South Africa's healthcare system -- Hans-Jürgen Papier -- Religion and the state: lessons learned from 70 years' experience of the Federal Republic of Germany.

UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development: the role and responsibility of churches and religious communities -- Isabel Apawo Phiri -- A World Council of Churches (WCC) perspective -- Joachim Goeske -- A German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) perspective -- Responsibility in church and state: experiences between loyalty, willingness to compromise and conflict -- Nico Koopman -- South Africa's compromise: 25 years later -- Volker Faigle -- German church-state relationship: participation and contradiction -- Renate Wilke-Launer -- The Protestant churches, boycotts, and mistakes -- Opportunities and limitations for cooperation from the perspective of national and international church development organisations -- Peter Meiwald -- A perspective from Misereor -- Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel -- A perspective from Bread for the World -- Rudelmar Bueno de Faria -- A perspective from ACT Alliance, Geneva -- Conclusion -- Sithembele Sipuka -- Human dignity and human development - our rationale for cooperation -- _Hlk57990992.

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