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The influence of food symbolism on food insecurity in South Africa: how relevant is the Eucharistic celebration?
(SUN, 2017)
Various research results point out poverty, inadequate food production and inadequate distribution as the main culprits for food insecurity in many African countries. This article wishes to contribute to the existing ...
Is it not God’s mercy that nourishes and sustains us … forever? Some theological perspectives on entangled sustainabilities
(SUN, 2017)
This essay explores the question whether and if so what contribution Christian systematic theology can make to contemporary discourse on sustainability and more specifically ‘entangled sustainabilities’. It acknowledges ...
‘When great Tao vanished, we got “goodness and morality”’
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
The Department of Religion and Theology introduced ethics as a major in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) about 20 years ago. After a shaky start, it became wildly popular. Currently, we try, ...
Women, priests and patriarchal ecclesial spaces in the Anglican church of Southern Africa: On ‘interruption’ asa transformative rhetorical strategy
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
In spite of the presence of women in previously male-dominated ecclesial spaces, patriarchal normativity continues to be re-inscribed through the reproduction of knowledge, which sustains skewed gender power relations ...
Re-examining a theology of reconciliation: What we learn from the Kairos document and its pedagogical implications
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa is widely regarded as an organisation that was established to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. Frequently considered as the ...
Where is wisdom to be found – now that we have stopped looking for it?
(SUN, 2017)
Ancient scribal culture had two faces. After arduous and largely impractical training, scribes were admitted to an elite circle and became custodians of a cultural tradition. But scribal teachers were also credited with ...
Ecumenical ecclesiology in the African context: towards a view of the church as Ubuntu
(Stellenbosch University, 2018)
This purpose of this essay is to provide an overview of approaches to ecclesiology in the African context with specific reference to various institutional expressions of the ecumenical movement. While wider ecumenical ...
Human genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignity
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2016)
The realities of social injustice in the present South African context, with its great
and growing gap between rich and poor and unequal distribution of wealth and
resources, are also acutely visible in the health-care ...
Pastoral care in communities under transition: Interplay between care and culture
(AOSIS, 2018)
This article contributes to pastoral care within communities under transition. It seeks to
contribute to the corpus of literature that relates pastoral care with culture and, particularly,
multicultural contexts. It seeks ...
TV is the devil, the devil is on TV: Wild religion and wild media in South Africa
(Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2018)
In keeping with trends in the academy and the rapidly increasing presence, power, and persuasion of digital and electronic media on the African continent and in the global economy, the study of religion and the media in ...