School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics
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The role of premarital counselling for marriage stability: a pastoral examination of the interface between the Christian and Alago Indigenous Epawoza concept of marriage preparation.
(2018)This study focuses on the pastoral examination of the interface between the premarital counselling methods of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ (ERCC) and the Alago indigenous Epawoza concept of marriage preparation ... -
Theological interpretation and inculturation Hermeneutics: a comparison, with special reference to the work of Justin Ukpong and the scripture project.
(2017)Grant LeMarquand in his 2006 essay, “Siblings or Antagonists? The Ethos of Biblical Scholarship from the North Atlantic and African Worlds”1 observes some of the differences and respective challenges facing biblical studies ... -
Gender and sexual health: a religio-cultural examination of masculinity in the film Yesterday.
(2017)The way that the South African society functions and operates in the post-apartheid era, and the engagement with gender and sexuality after apartheid has reveal an expanded understanding of gender and sexual identity, but ... -
Broken hearts, broken homes, and broken relationships: an exploration into the use of storytelling approach in the pastoral counselling of people in search of healing from painful memories.
(2017)The volatile nature of the numerous life crisis experienced in South Africa has a direct (or indirect) link to the chequered socio-political history of the country. For example, the years of repressive and violent Apartheid ... -
“A theory of human dignity” for children who are born with acute physical and mental challenges grounded on the social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2018)Almost every day, world-wide, women, young and adults give birth to a child. The birth of a child becomes a moment of joy. It becomes a vivid reality of the maintenance and continuation of the family lineage. It is therefore ... -
In search of prophetic theology: South African political theology in conversation with Anabaptism.
(2017)The South African Kairos Document: A Challenge to the Church (KD) written in 1985 continues to be critically important even 30 years after its release. Its ongoing significance is due to three inter-related dynamics: a) ... -
The Spartans and the AmaZulu : a comparative study of their military and social systems.
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Atticism in Achilles Tatius : an examination of linguistic perism in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon.
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The evangelisation of the Catholic Church in Southern Africa : community serving humanity.
(2017)This thesis critically examines the Pastoral Plan of the Catholic Church in Southern Africa “Community Serving Humanity” and its evangelical and participatory role of evangelisation and social transformation including its ... -
Negotiated feminism? a study of married Bemba women appropriating the Imbusa pre-marital 'curriculum' at home and workplace.
(2016)Imbusa spaces (anthropologists refers to it as initiation rites) are often perceived as cultural spaces for uneducated, rural women, yet, even educated Bemba (Zambian) women undergo these rites as well. Imbusa teachings ... -
A theological inquiry into the doctrine of the sacrament of baptism and rebaptism in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.
(2018)This dissertation discusses the topic of baptismal convergence in relation to sacramental baptism. It is a theological exercise arising from pastoral concerns, for which both Biblical and theological answers are considered ... -
Inter-religious marriage counselling in South Africa : towards a counselling model for inter-religious couples : a Christian perspective.
(2016)The research is on inter-religious marriage and counselling from a Christian perspective. Although religious intolerance and resistance to inter-religious and inter-faith marriages exist in society, it appears that ... -
Social holiness as agency? : reactivating the mission imperative ; "human empowerment and economic development", in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa [MCSA]
(2016)This research paper explores the ways by which the practice of social holiness can be reactivated in the lives of the members of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in order to enhance the church’s mission pillar on ... -
Economic hardship and vulnerability of young women to sex trafficking: a challenge to the Catholic Church's theological advocacy in South Africa.
(2015)This research project focuses on sex trafficking of vulnerable young women in quest of economic dignity in South Africa and the Catholic Church’s theological response in combating it. Indeed, the economic hardship and ... -
The role of biblical interpretation in the construction of sexual identity in christian Sunday school material for children: a re-reading of Genesis 3 and Matthew 1.18-25 from a feminist and queer perspective.
(2016)Christian churches have played an important role in socializing its members on how to behave in society. It is in these dynamics of creating Christian identities that a process of sexual socialization takes place. However, ... -
A postcolonial critique of religion and ethnicity in Southern Kaduna with specific reference to an online forum.
(2016)Against the background of ethnic and religious relations and conflicts in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, this study examined the emerging social and cultural spaces on which religious and ethnic identities are contested, such ... -
Indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices on pregnancy and childbirth among the Ndau people of Zimbabwe.
(2017)Framed within a postcolonial indigenous research paradigm, the study used a phenomenological analysis drawing on the case study of the Ndau people of south-eastern Zimbabwe, to explore the contribution of African indigenous ... -
Religion, migration and the building of social support networks in South Africa.
(2016)Human migration is a social reality that happens every time. With regard to the reasons why people migrate, theorization will remain inconclusive. This is because migration is influenced by both social and personal factors. ... -
An analysis of Lenten fasting practices in two congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, South Eastern Diocese, Umngeni Circuit.
(2016)The thesis describes the results of an investigation of fasting based on a literature review and interviews with twenty fasting Christians. The researcher attempts to determine the attitude of Lutheran and Pentecostal ... -
Contested memory : a contribution to the story of the emergence of Methodism in Umlazi.
(2016)The aim of this study was to show how the telling of a story about the emergence of a church can be affected by not giving attention to the history of the area that church is in. In addition to that, this study shows how ...
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