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Power and Faith: How Evangelical Churches Are Shaping Our Democracy by Pontsho Pilane.
Power and Faith: How Evangelical Churches Are Shaping Our Democracy by Pontsho Pilane.
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Journalist Pontsho Pilane's experience as a member of a powerful evangelical church changed the trajectory of her life and began her journey of re-evaluating her faith – and its impact on her rights.

In Power and Faith, she draws on her own story to provide social commentary on how religion can affect our constitutional rights as South Africans. She considers recovering from religious trauma, the evangelicals’ take on sex and sin, and the ‘far-reaching hands of the US religious right'. In this excerpt, she speaks of her personal experience and why she delved into this issue.

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