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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Professional support and guidance in cyberspace counselling : an ethical critique.
(2016)This study investigated the ethical issues of using cyberspace counselling. Specifically, the study focused on ethical issues arising from migration from face-to-face contact to cyberspace counselling using telephone, ... -
An exploration of the possible pastoral care role of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa in regard to political developments through a re-reading of Luther’s treatise on “temporal authority”.
(2017)This study seeks to examine the interpretation and the possible pastoral care role of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern (ELCSA) Africa with reference to political developments through a re-reading of Luther’s ... -
Conceptual framework for the work of the Roman Catholic Church in South Africa demanding participatory development.
(2016)The purpose of this study is to propose and analyze the framework within the local Church in South Africa to engage with the demands for the involvement of the poor in their development. The following four components that ... -
Theologizing food autonomy for maternal health : a case of Mashobye Methodist Women's Manyano in Limpopo Province.
(2017)Food and health have been declared universal basic human rights for all people. However, studies have shown that women and poor rural women in particular lack access to adequate food and nutrition for their individual and ... -
Partnership praxis and development? A theological assessment of the discourse and practice of partnerships among African initiated churches in the post-apartheid South Africa.
(2016)Partnership has long been identified as the only viable strategy towards sustainable social development. Twenty-two years into democracy, South African communities are still experiencing the pain of underdevelopment due ... -
Perspectives of infertility : a coloured woman’s reading of 1 Samuel 1-2.
(2017)In Africa, procreation is held in high regard even though many women are affected by infertility, miscarriage and stillbirth. The subject of infertility is addressed in cold clinical terms or in silence, even in the modern ... -
An exploration of how Zulu gay men negotiate their Christian and cultural beliefs in the process of coming out.
(2017)Struggles with sexuality vary from person to person depending on their unique circumstances and experiences, but those who are attracted to people of the same sex, arguably experience greater struggles. These struggles are ... -
Reconstructing Shakti : Investigating narrative representations of Hindu women within the context of intimate partner violence
(2016)The survival and constitution of Hindu religious practices in South Africa are quite unique. Having survived indenture, racial discrimination, relocation, and the prejudices of Hindu reform movements, the Amman tradition, ... -
Shaping black women’s bodies: religio-cultural conceptions of black women’s engagement in bodybuilding.
(2017)Master Art in Religion. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 2017. -
Applying collective narrative practices in local churches : a study exploring to what extent narrative practices can facilitate re-authoring conversations around the church’s role in development.
(2016)Emerging from the struggle many churches seem to experience in engaging with issues of injustice, and the role of the church in the development discourse, this research aims to investigate to what extent Narrative ... -
A study of the reception of the life and death of the Neoplatonist philosopher Hypatia of Alexandra in Amenabar's film Agorá.
(2016)The film Agorá is better appreciated through a little knowledge of the rise of Christianity and its opposition to Paganism which professed ethical principles inherited from Greek mythology and acknowledged, seasonal rituals ...
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