ABSTRACT
By examining religious mediations, one can study the ways in which the social boundaries and racial relations that defined Afrikaners have changed and taken unexpected forms in the post-apartheid era. The emerging new faiths and religious practices have crossed the previous boundaries not only through their racial mediation practices, but also theologically and spatially, reflecting fundamental transformations of the ways Afrikaners think about and reflect on moral and racial boundaries. The new religious practices have taken many different forms, but this concluding chapter proposes the importance of movement as a vehicle of mediation in them all, which allows Afrikaners to simultaneously mediate and differentiate between belief worlds that are far apart and hard to reconcile. This is not only relevant in the study of those identifying as Afrikaners: the author proposes that bringing new social worlds into being by means of movement is a deeply human exercise, and suggests a framework for examining the connection between movement and mediation that can also be used to study social and religious changes more broadly and in other contexts.
