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Mdaka, Tintswalo Sophie. "A comparative analysis of Western and African traditional churches among Vatsonga : a sociolinguistic study." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1126.

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Bell, Tenolian Rodney. "Factors that influence African-American church goers to seek help from their churches as opposed to traditional social service agencies /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu14879457445735.

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Glover, David Edward. "Developing a model for changing the traditional pattern of evangelism in the black church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Park, Jinho. "The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46160.

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The history of African Independent Churches (AICs) in Southern Africa goes back for more than a hundred years. They have proliferated geographically and demographically in Africa more than the mainline churches could ever have imagined. They have grown to be as widespread and as influential as the African mainline churches. The reason for this growth is that the AICs are the churches of African indigenous people. They are launched by Africans from a background of an African traditional and cultural frame of reference. The most significant reason is that the founders of these churches ar

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Holmgren, E. Henry. "Signs and wonders in Africa a biblical perspective in interaction with western missions, African independent churches and African traditional religion, with particular reference to Zambia /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Bell, Tenolian Rodney Sr. "Factors that influence African American church goers to seek help from their churches as opposed to traditional social service agencies." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1277924360.

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Ondego, Joseph Odongo. "African Luo ethnic traditional religion and Bible translation mission, education and theology." Berlin Viademica-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2841177&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Shange, Nombulelo Tholithemba. "Shembe religion's integration of African traditional religion and Christianity : a sociological case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011819.

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The Shembe Church's integration of African Traditional Religion and Christianity has been met by many challenges. This merger has been rejected by both African traditionalists and Christians. The Shembe Church has been met by intolerance even though the movement in some ways creates multiculturalism between different people and cultures. This thesis documents the Shembe Church's ideas and practices; it discusses how the Shembe Church combines two ideologies that appear to be at odds with each other. In looking at Shembe ideas and practices, the thesis discusses African religion-inspired ritual

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Nyuyki, Peter Siysi. "A missional approach to the traditional social associations of the NSO’ people of Cameroon." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59094.

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This research deals with Christian missions and African cultures. It focuses on the traditional social associations of the Nso’ people of Cameroon. The main problem the research addresses is that missionaries who came to Nso’ mostly imposed their culture on the Nso’ and by extension Africa in the name of Christianity. What this research refers to as traditional social associations is what the missionaries prejudicially termed secret societies. The research argues that these traditional social associations are not secret societies. They are rather custodians and preservers of Nso’ cultur

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Munyai, Alidzulwi Simon. "Understanding the Christian message in Venda a study of the traditional concepts of God and of life hereafter among the Venda, with reference to the impact of these concepts on the Christian churches /." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01082009-161905/.

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Ndlovu, Caesar Maxwell Jeffrey. "Religion, tradition and custom in a Zulu male vocal idiom." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002315.

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The study is about a Zulu male vocal tradition called isicathamiya performed by 'migrants' in all night competitions called ingomabusuku. This is a performance style popularized by the award winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Isicathamiya, both in its symbolic structure and in the social and culturalpractice of its proponents has much in common with the ritual practices of Zionists. And Zionists are worshippers who integrate traditional beliefs and Christianity. This study will reveal that isicathamiya performance and Zionists are linked in three major areas:in the sqcial bases and practic

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Douglas, Stephanie Robyn. "The role of Scripture in the development of new church traditions, a case study of two Kenyan African independent churches." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/MQ36602.pdf.

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Oliver, Chakahier A. M. "A sacred affair a case study of the sociopolitical activist traditions of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church /." 24-page ProQuest preview, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1367834241&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=14&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1220040741&clientId=10355.

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McLendon, Howard A. "Postmodern homiletics and authority in the African American preaching tradition." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Uaene, Isaias. "Church as community a Trinitarian ecclesiology in the context of traditional African social values /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Chukwu, Isidore-Splendour. "Christianity and African Traditional Religion (ATR): A Conundrum of Crisis in Faith in Igboland, Nigeria." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108079.

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Thesis advisor: Richard Lennan<br>Thesis advisor: Dominic Doyle<br>Religion is central and vital for an Igbo person. No Igbo person exists in isolation from his/her community. An indigenous and traditional Igbo society is communal; it does not entertain any sense of individuality. But the coming of the missionaries broke into this communal bond with a new religion that threatened the traditional society when it began to exalt the individual soul. The Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, in his book Things Fall Apart, portrays a situation in which an African indigenous missionary (Mr. Kiaga) succeed

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Ghartey-Tagoe, David Bright. "The church's understanding of death and the dead : with reference to traditional Effutu beliefs and practices." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13553.

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To be or not to be that is the question. The Church's Understanding of Death and the Dead with reference to the traditional Effutu people's beliefs and practices is an attempt to do theology in an African way as well as to understand the Christian Faith in terms of death and the dead. In the pervasive influence and challenge of the Christian message to Africans, Effutus not excepted, and demand upon their individual lives and their relationships with one another; in countless personal and group decisions made, and lives actually lived very differently from what they would otherwise have been,

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Lando, Ngongo Agnes Lucy. "Integration of African traditional media and modern methods of communication : a pre-requisite for inculturation of the christian message in the local church of Eastern Africa /." Rome, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?sys=000254137.

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Lando, Agnes Lucy. "Integration of African traditional media and modern methods of communication : a pre-requisite for inculturation of the christian message in the local Church of Eastern Africa /." Rome, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb413425166.

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Crichton, Iain William. "Ghostwriting a tool for getting oral-urban church leaders in print /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Katani, Archwells Moffat. "Traditional Malawian choral music : a liturgical-critical study within the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP)-Nkhoma Synod." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1268.

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Ngomane, Richard Mangayisi. "Leadership mentoring and succession in the Charismatic churches in Bushbuckridge : a critical assessment in the light of 2 Timothy 2 :1 - 3." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40194.

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This study investigated the state of leadership mentoring and succession planning in the Charismatic Churches in Bushbuckridge. In order to gain a full understanding of the Charismatic Movement which emerged in Bushbuckridge only four decades ago, it was necessary to trace its origin from the Azusa Street Revival which gave birth to Pentecostalism almost a century ago. The Charismatic Movement emerged as a distinct movement only five decades later following the birth of the Pentecostal Movement. The reviewed literature revealed that the Charismatic Movement is a child of the marriage between t

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Araborne, Anastasia. "African women as mothers and persons in rhetoric and practice : a critical study of African womanhood, maternal roles, and identities in theological and cultural constructs in the Roman Catholic tradition." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/African-Women-as-Mothers-and-Persons-in-Rhetoric-and-Practice(e2cae8d8-dc49-42df-9961-2f8cf5e482f6).html.

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This thesis adopts maternal well-being as a prism for studying the roles and identities of African women. It critically analyzes the dynamics in culture and religion that militate against women's quest for fullness of life. As its methodology, it adopts narratives of African women as a source and means of theological research based on the anthropological model. This method prioritizes the voices and humanity of previously silenced, excluded, and oppressed women and their conditions of maternal mortality, poverty, and oppression rooted in gender biases and patriarchal stereotypes. Theology has

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Van, Deventer Wilhelm Visser. "Poverty and a practical ministry of liberation and development within the context of the traditional Venda concept of man." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2394.

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Taylor, Toniesha Latrice. "A Tradition Her Own: Womanist Rhetoric and the Womanist Sermon." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1231801444.

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Rist, Timothy John. "The development from a Wesleyan perspective of an appropriate model of multi-cultural ministry, from within a traditionally mono-cultural Methodist congregation." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018218.

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From introduction: The intention of this thesis is to develop a model for multi-cultural ministry, and, in so doing, to enable Trinity Methodist Church, Charles Street, Bloemfontein to provide a comprehensive and meaningful ministry to all people, one that is not limited by the constraints of language and culture but which transcends them. The fact that Trinity is a Methodist Church means that I will be establishing the "Model for Multi-Cultural Ministry" firmly within Wesleyan theology. South Africa has undergone far-reaching political change since the general elections of April 1994. This po

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Kainerugaba, Frank Odyek Godfrey. "The involvement of women in mission in the Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (LCSA)." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40332.

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The principle purpose of the study was to investigate the role of women in the mission and ministry of The Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (LCSA). The researcher raised the question of why women are viewed as inferior within the LCSA, and whether this is Biblically supported. I investigated the distinction between men and women with regard to the church culture, tradition, pastoral office, priesthood, and authority within the LCSA. As a general theoretical framework, I used two theories in church mission: (1) The unity of the Church and apostolic practice as propounded by Schenk in 19

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Awadzi, Raymond K. "Entrenching African Pentecostalism in the United States of America: A Study of a Ghanaian Founded Charismatic Church in South Florida." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2475.

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For the past three decades, there has been a rapid growth of African Pentecostal Christianity on America’s Christian religious scene. In general, researchers in Christian mission studies have concluded that the flow of Christian religious currents from Africa and other Third World countries to the West is something of a Christian mission in reverse process. Using agency and invention of tradition as the theoretical leads, this study explores the roles lay immigrants played in the rooting of the Christian Restoration Ministries International (CRMI), a Ghanaian founded charismatic church, in Mia

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Nyarenchi, M. K. N. (Matwetwe). "A theological ethical assessment of homosexuality in the east African context : a Seventh-Day Adventist perspective." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23854.

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In the world in which we are living today many people, especially Christians, wonder why people should talk about homosexuality. For many past years, the Christian Church, especially in East Africa, considered herself more or less immune from many of the challenges, experienced by the rest of the world, particularly the Western world. However, as the church now continues to grow in numbers and expand its territories, these problems start to appear in the church also all over East Africa. Increasingly the consciousness of the society is being raised concerning social-ethical issues such as wome

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Okorie, George Maduakolam. "The integral salvation of the human person in Ecclesia in Africa a case study of the theological implications among the Igbo in Nigeria." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988863839/04.

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Ibewuike, Victoria O. "African Women and Religious Change: A study of the Western Igbo of Nigeria with a special focus on Asaba town." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Department of Theology, Uppsala University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6200.

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Delaney, Micah T. "MY CHILD WILL HAVE A VOICE: BLACK SINGLE MOTHERS WITH FIRST TIME CHILDREN AND THE TENSIONS IN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MOTHERS AND THEIR TRADITIONALLY RELIGIOUS MARRIED PARENTS." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1623497956787143.

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Kriel, Pieter Frederik. "Workers for the harvest producing and training the leaders the church needs to fulfil its missionary task /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252009-012852/.

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Matsepe, Shale Solomon. "The appropriation of African traditional healing by the Zionist Churches: a challenge to the mission churches in Gaborone ”Botswana”." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2038.

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The Zionist type of churches under the African Independent Churches have proven to be a force to be reckoned with against the more organized ecclesiastical movements (in particular the Mission Churches). This can be seen in their emphasis around matters related to culture and its methods of healing. As s result this led to the migration of people from the mission churches to these churches and threatened their existence in Botswana. The mission churches have been experiencing the decline in their membership to the Zionist churches because of the lack of openness to the cultural and the value s

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Kim, Sin Hong. "A comparative study of the role of traditional religion in some South African independent churches and the church in Korea : missiological research." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6365.

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Morekwa, Othusitse. "The interchange, exchange and appropriation of traditional healing, modern medicine and Christian healing in Africa today." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1896.

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This research work is set out to investigate healing practised in Africa today. There are many ways of healing in African; others are classified as foreign because they came out of Africa especially from European influence while others are considered local or traditional. The research shall dig out the influence of what is known as foreign methods or approaches of healing in Africa today and what African healing can learn from other methods of healing practised today. There shall be contemporary stories and facts about the situation of healing today and relevan

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Maboea, Sello Isaiah. "The influence of numinous power in the African traditional religion and the Zionist churches in Soweto - a comparative study." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6824.

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Mabuza, Lethabo Stanley. "An Analysis of Current Healing Practices Based on Selected Mega-Churches in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1138.

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MAAS<br>Centre for African Studies<br>Healing practices and health related rituals play a vital role in most religious groups including African Traditional Religion, Christianity, Islamic and Hinduism. This phenomenon of healing has been a challenge to religious institutions as well as African based churches. This study examined and analysed the healing practices within mega-churches in relation to the health related aspects. It appears that healing practices performed in those churches make them popular and enhance their growth in membership numerically. The study focuses on the philosophy an

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Manganyi, Jele Samuel. "Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23900.

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The African Initiated Churches (AICs) are the custodians of the African Traditional Religion (ATR). In the South African census, the AICs are classified as Christian. Africans claim that long before the Christian faith came through missionaries there was some form of worship of God by Africans. This means Africans practiced ATR outside Christianity and after Christianity came through missionaries, they started practising it as Christians One of the reasons given for the Africans moving out of the missionary churches to start their own was a search for an African identity. There was a hunger fo

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Conteh, Prince Sorie. "The place of African traditional religion in interreligious encounters in Sierra Leone since the advent of Islam and Christianity." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2316.

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This study which is the product of library research and fieldwork seeks, on account of the persistent marginalisation of African Traditional Religion (ATR) in Sierra Leone by Islam and Christianity, to investigate the place of ATR in inter-religious encounters in the country since the advent of Islam and Christianity. As in most of sub-Saharan Africa, ATR is the indigenous religion of Sierra Leone. When the early forebears and later progenitors of Islam and Christianity arrived, they met Sierra Leone indigenes with a remarkable knowledge of God and a structured religious system. Success

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Banda, Collium. "The sufficiency of Christ in Africa : a christological challenge from African traditional religions." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1434.

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The sufficiency of Jesus Christ in the African Church is challenged by the widespread spiritual insecurity in African Christians, prompting them to hold on to ATR. The wholistic securing power of ATR challenges the sufficiency Christ's salvation to Africans. Proposing African Christological motifs alone is inadequate to induce confidence upon Christ. The African worldview must further be transformed inline with the implications of the victory of the Cross over Satan. Indeed, Christ has fully liberated African Christians from Satan's authority, placed them in his kingdom, and transformed them i

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Osei, Mensah-Aborampah. "Witchcraft in the religion of the Hlubi of Qumbu: focusing on the issues of sickness and healing in the society." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1187.

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This research sought to investigate the impact of a belief in witchcraft as an explanation for all the ills in the Hlubi community and South African societies in general - which becomes a good tool for inadequate governments. Our approach in this study has been interdisciplinary and the utilization of comparative analysis and a combination of phenomenological and qualitative research models. Economic problems create social tensions and are manifested in various ways, including witchcraft craze. The Hlubi scenario found parallels in Europe and America. Witchcraft and ancestors are considered to

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Modiboa, Boikanyo Joel. "The confusion in understanding salvation in church religion by African Christian people as it relates to Salvation in African Traditional religion hampers the building up of the local church." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28846.

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Peters, Ronald Edward. "The balm in Gilead: A descriptive study of two after-school tutoring models sponsored by African-American churches and the nurturing tradition within the African-American church." 1991. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9120928.

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Many African-American congregations in urban settings have established after-school tutorial programs as a means of assisting students toward better academic performance. While there is some consensus that church sponsored tutoring programs in the Black community are welcome and should be encouraged, to date the research documenting what is actually taking place in these programs and what the responses are of those affected by the programs is generally sparse. Descriptive case studies of tutoring activities sponsored by two churches, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Church of Springfield,

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Dube, Sydney Wilson Dumisani. "Text and context : the ministry of the word in selected African indigenous churches." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6387.

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The dissertation focuses on preaching in the context of selected African indigenous churches. The aim of the study was to explore sermon texts as a genre of oral communication. The gathering of data was guided by the hypothesis that the sermons that are preached in the African indigenous churches are composed orally and communicated orally. Three church groups were identified for the purposes of this study. Although the intention, at the planning stage of the study, was to study a mixture of Ethiopian, Zionist and Messianic-type churches, practical considerations and also because of socio-poli

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Sithole, Nkosinathi. "Testimony, identity and power : oral narratives of near-death experiences in the Nazarite church." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1931.

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In this study I investigate the narratives of near-death experiences in the Nazarite Church as one way in which this community grapples with the question of death and the after-life. However, I am particularly interested in the manner in which Nazarite members deploy these experiences to define individual and collective identities. I argue that in the Nazarite Church the significance of near-death experiences is neither rooted in the future nor in the past, but it is something of the here and now. As Biesele states, " Old stories are powerful not because they come from the past, but because th

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Ngcongo, Thobile Thandiwe. "Orality and transformation in some Zulu ceremonies : tradition in transition." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7079.

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This study contains a variety of oral traditional formulae found in various places in KwaZulu-Natal which are used in the imbeleko ceremony and these formulae are analyzed in their traditional form and in a number of new formulations. The imbeleko ceremony is a celebration to introduce and welcome a newborn child, but occasionally even an adult newcomer may be introduced to both the living and the ancestral spirits. A full description of the imbeleko ceremony, the reasons for performing it, the procedures followed, an analysis and comparison of mnemotechnics used in the formulae and finally th

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Swanepoel, Dawid Lukas Frederik. "Missiologiese evaluasie van die seksuele etiek by die Tsonga." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16153.

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Text in Afrikaans<br>Hierdie is 'n verkennende studie wat die Tsonga se persepsies omtrent seksualiteit ondersoek. Daar is gekonsentreer op die etiese en sosio-kulturele aspekte van die seksualiteit ten einde riglyne aan die Christelike kerk te verskaf. Die kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetode is gebruik. In hoofstukke twee en drie word breedvoerig verlag gedoen oor die Tsonga se seksuele persepsies en gebruike. Eerstens word gekyk na die nie-Christelike Tsonga en dan na die Christelike Tsonga. Die nie-Christelike Tsonga se seksualiteit is deurspek van rnitiese gebruike en gelowe. Die Christelike Tso

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Siwila, Lilian Cheelo. "Culture, gender, and HIV and AIDS : United Church of Zambia's response to traditional marriage practices." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3466.

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In the wake of HIV and AIDS in Africa, culture has been identified as central to HIV prevention, care, and support. Therefore, scholars have argued that HIV intervention in communities should focus on cultural practices rather than just individual behaviour. Researchers have also taken note of the interconnectedness between religion and culture in Africa. Therefore the African theologian, Mercy Oduyoye, proposed the term ‘religioculture.’ In the light of this connection, it has become crucial to examine not just cultural practices but the response of religion to cultural practices in the conte

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Taylor, Norton Lindsay Alport. "The Anglican Church in Grahamstown 1830-1870 : a study of the experience of the parishioners in the development of the tradition." 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16172.

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A social history of Grahamstown between the years of 1830-1870. Tracing the relationship of the parishioners of the diocese with the "English Church", which developed into a formative part of the world-wide Anglican communion as the Church of the Province of South Africa after 1870. The study tries to gauge the extent of external influences on the settlers after 1830 both socio-political and ecclesiological and especially with the growth of the influence of the Tractarians after the arrival of Gray as first bishop. In the light of the later developments when the churches became 'trapped in

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