The South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms.

This essay relates the history of the South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms. It summarizes its content, highlights a few challenges facing the Charter, and comments on the future of the Charter as an expression by civil society of the content of the right to freedom of religion and belief. Inevitably, the Charter also speaks to its context, namely the diverse South African society within which it came into being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]