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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 ...
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 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, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...