![Political Theology, Volume 19, Issue 7, November 2018 is now available](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Journal-Tilt-600x600.png)
The new issue of Political Theology includes a guest editorial from Joshua Ralston, essays by Christopher Trigg, Michelle Wolff, and Kyle Lambelet, and a roundtable on political theology and literature
![South Africa—Twenty Years Later (by Stephen Martin)](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/march_crop-600x600.jpg)
And so it was this past Easter Saturday that thousands of South Africans, supported by religious leaders, “evoke[d] the spirit of the 1980s, when the faith community intervened to promote and defend democracy.”[2] Leading the procession was the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba.
![Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race Conference](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Unisa-campus10-003-600x600.jpg)
In collaboration with the Voice and Voicelessness Project, UNISA, the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race will be sponsoring a conference, July 10-16, 2014, in Praetoria, South Africa, investigating “Social Struggle and Faith-Based Activism in ‘Black Empowerment’ Times.”
![The Mandela Myth — Ian Almond](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/township-South-Africa-600x600.jpg)
It would be nice to be able to write the following in the wake of Nelson Mandela’s demise: Mandela was a freedom fighter to the end, a figure whose legacy has not only brought justice and equality to the people he left behind, but also has worked as a moving inspiration for the world leaders who gathered last week to bid his spirit farewell.
![Mandela may be gone, but his DNA lives on – Carl Stauffer](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Mandela-bday-boy-GovtZA-600x426.jpg)
“Have you heard that Mandela died?” The staggering impact of this question took my breath away as I stepped into the office after a full day of classes on Thursday, December 5th. I texted my daughter who had grown up in South Africa, with these simple words, “Wow – this is huge!” Mourning the loss of Mandela has been an enormous undertaking.
![The Meaning of Mandela—Stephen W. Martin](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mandela-600x575.jpg)
“Most politicians represent an interest group, a community of people who vote for them and whose interests they serve. Nelson Mandela was different; he represented a community that did not yet exist, a community he hoped would come into being.” —Rowan Williams