This essay, written at the behest of the agency responsible for developing an anti-corruption ethos in South African governance, including the public service, focuses on the logic of the separation of religion from the public sphere in modern democracies (and challenges this logic as incoherent and unhelpful), comment son its implications for our contemporary situation while making some claims about the pertinence of religion, and then pursues the question of the appropriate role of religion in public life in relation to the issue of corruption.
