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Queer studies and religion in Southern Africa: The production of queer Christian subjects
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
The question of how to write about queer Africa has been a significant debate in scholarship over the last decade. One of the key emerging areas, in the development of ‘queer Africa scholarship’ has been through the framing ...
A green reformation of Christianity? Anthropological, ethical and pedagogical reflections on ecology as ecumenical theme
(Stellenbosch University, 2021)
This contribution builds upon and contributes to many recent ecumenical calls
for an ecological reformation of Christianity. It seeks to guide such calls on the
use of the term “ecology” by offering five brief statements ...
The four tasks of Christian ecotheology: Revisiting the current debate
(Stellenbosch University, 2020)
This contribution offers a description of the tasks of Christian ecotheology both
from a de facto and from a de iure perspective. It suggests that this entails both a
twofold critique and a twofold constructive task, ...
Feminist pandemic pedagogies: Podcasting and the study of religion
(Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2021)
In this articleI will explore and share my pedagogical practices and ex-periences as a feminist scholar of religion, within the context of a voluntary postgraduate reading group, during the first ...
Church’s response to migrants’ quest for identity formation
(AOSIS, 2021)
Migration has received diverse responses from the dominant powers in the political, social
and religious spheres. Assimilation, domination and cohesion are some of the responses to the
integration of people who cross ...
The Seventh-Day Adventist church and the quest for transformational development in contemporary Nigeria perspectives from an empirical study
(Southern African Missiological Society, 2022)
This article discusses the findings of an empirical study that investigated the attitudes
of different sections of the membership of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA)
Church to the socio-economic and political struggles ...
African Pentecostal churches and racialized xenophobia: International migrants as agents of transformational development?
(SAGE, 2022)
Scholarship on Pentecostal potential and practice forms a significant part of the debate on religion and development, not least when the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in this debate African Pentecostal migrant
communities ...
A journal for biblical, theological and / or contextual hermeneutics?
(Stellenbosch University, 2020)
This contribution reflects on the current sub-title of the journal Scriptura, namely
“Journal for Biblical, Theological and Hermeneutics”. It showsthat this has been
a core interest of the journal over a period of forty ...
Intersection of personhood and culture: A narrative approach of pastoral care to gender-based violence
(Klaasen, J. (2018). Intersection of personhood and culture: A narrative approach of pastoral care to gender-based violence. Scriptura ,117 (1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.7833/117-1-1348, 2018)
What contribution does a narrative approach make to effective care for those
affected by gender-based violence? Notwithstanding the contributions of feminist
theologians who take experience and identity seriously (Ackermann ...
Rulers or servants? A re-reading of psalm 8 concerning the place of humankind in the age of the anthropocene
(Stellenbosch University, 2022)
With the Age of the Anthropocene and the clear signs of ecological destruction that have resulted from this rule of humans over the creation of God, it is essential that biblical scholars revisit the texts, both in the Old ...