Dr Ruhan Fourie is one of South Africa’s emerging historians. His research on Beyers Naudé has earned him numerous awards, and his work on anticommunism in South Africa is recognised in academic circles internationally. In this book, Dr Fourie adeptly retells and interprets a complex part of South Africa’s history, highlighting crucial markers and warnings for our present time. He presents this in a clear, concise, and historically accountable manner. Ruhan Fourie was born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. He studied at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (BA), Stellenbosch University (Hons and MA), and the University of the Free State (PhD). His master’s thesis on the life of Beyers Naudé won a prize for the best Afrikaans thesis. After obtaining his PhD in African Studies from the University of the Free State in 2022, he continued with postdoctoral studies at the same institution, where he developed this monograph, Christian Nationalism and Anticommunism in Twentieth-Century South Africa, published by Routledge in 2024. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology at Stellenbosch University.
Book: Christian Nationalism and Anticommunism in Twentieth-Century South Africa
