Title: Prisoner of Conscience: One Man's Remarkable Journey from Repression to Freedom
Publisher: Ebury Press
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1846040019
ISBN 13: 9781846040016
Binding: hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 12 ounces

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Charles Yeats, ordained priest and former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, has lived much of his life on the frontline. Raised in privilege, his life changed forever when he was called for military service in apartheid South Africa. As a conscientious objector, Yeats faced inevitable arrest. His experiences in jail make for compelling reading, as do his comments on Western imperialism and his insights on how we might create a lasting world peace.

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Imprisoned for two years in the early 1980s for his refusal to serve in the army under apartheid, Yeats blends the quiet account of his resistance with a highly readable overview of South African history, from the first European settlers in the seventeenth century (including his own ancestors) through the long years of oppression and, finally, liberation. A white from a very privileged background ("We looked away. We played sport"), he deliberately returned home from England to confront the racist system. Coping with abuse and solitary confinement in prison, he started a theology degree by correspondence, and he is now an ordained Anglican minister who teaches business ethics in Durham. Yeats writes without self-importance, calling himself "pathetically limp and self-indulgent," and his arguments at his trial and with himself lend authority to his final discussion of the critical issues facing the church today, including the inclusion of gays and the struggle for peace in the Middle East. Hazel Rochman
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