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Socially just pedagogies and social justice: The intersection of teaching ethics at higher education level and social justice
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
This article is part of a longer term project between the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape and Umea University in Sweden. At both the institutions the teaching of ethics as a module ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Church, narrative, community and identity in times of migration
(AOSIS, 2020)
Migration is perceived by many communities as a threat to national unity, social cohesion, nationality or common identity. This article is an attempt to address the following question: How does or should the church as a ...
Narrative and personhood: The quest for triad community development
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)
This article sets out a Christian theological anthropology for community development.
This critical engagement with traditional and doctrinal forms of Christian theological
anthropology will analyse two contrasting ...
The absurdity of reconciliation. What we (should) learn from Rustenburg and the implications for South Africa
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)
The quest for reconciliation in South Africa is an exercise in the absurd. To say it is an
exercise for the absurd might also have some merit. Like Sisyphus, the figure in Greek
mythology, those engaged in the quest for ...
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 ...