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Scharnick-Udemans, Lee-Shae. "Religion and public broadcasting in South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22831.
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The advent of democracy in South Africa ushered in a new paradigm for freedom of religion and freedom of expression. Public broadcasting in general and the South African Broadcasting Corporation in particular constituted critical sites where the material possibilities and impossibilities of these rights were to be defined, negotiated, and regulated. This thesis investigates the role of religion in the history and development of the South African mediascape. Substantial chapters analyse the role of religion in the banning and introduction of television under apartheid, the place of religion in the formulation of new media policy in the democratic era, and the regulatory role of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa in dealing with allegations of religious offense, blasphemy, defamation, and incitement to violence. From the television controversy in apartheid South Africa to postapartheid media policy and practice, the thesis uncovers issues of religious legitimation, religious regulation, freedom of expression, and freedom of religion in relation to the multiple configurations of religion, media, and politics. The way that the media industry and its regulatory bodies engage with religion, whether through production, dissemination, or regulation, is expected to be underlined in policy and practice by the constitutional mandate to balance freedom of expression against other rights that might be at stake in the mediasphere. Whereas freedom of expression is considered the defining framework for broadcast media, freedom of religion is subject to regulation. As the first extended study of religion and media in South Africa, this thesis shows that as a result of the deeply rooted Christian national heritage of public broadcasting and the Western Christian orientation of the constitutional democracy, Christian normative sensibilities regarding religion have been sustained within the institutional structures that govern the political economy of religion and public broadcasting.
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Boodoo, Gerald Uzukwu Elochukwu Eugene. "GLOBALIZATION, POLITICS AND RELIGION IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 2013. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,1233.
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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 rituals like ukusina, ancestral honouring, animal sacrificing and virgin testing. The thesis also discusses the heavy Christian influence within the Shembe Church; this is done by looking at the Shembe Church's use of The Bible and Moses' Laws which play a crucial role in the Church. The challenges the Shembe Church faces are another main theme of the thesis. The thesis looks at cases of intolerance and human rights violations experienced by Shembe members. This is done in part by looking at the living conditions at eBuhleni, located at Inanda, KZN. The thesis also analyses individual Shembe member's experiences and discusses how some members of the Shembe church experience the acceptance of the Shembe religion in South African society. This thesis concludes by trying to make a distinction between intolerance and controversy. I try to highlight the idea that what many Shembe followers see as discrimination and intolerance towards them is sometimes a difference in opinion from other cultural groups. Sometimes these differences are not geared towards criticising other religious groups or perpetuating intolerance.
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Bruder, Edith. "The Black Jews of Africa : history, religion, identity /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb413210103.
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Bernard, Penelope Susan. "Messages from the deep : water divinities, dreams and diviners in Southern Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007644.
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This thesis is a comparative regional study of a complex of beliefs and practices regarding the water divinities in southern Africa. These snake and mermaid-like divinities, which are said to work in conjunction with one's ancestors, are believed to be responsible for the calling and training of certain diviner-healers by taking them underwater for periods of time. In addition to granting healing knowledge, these divinities are associated with fertility, water and rain, and the origins of humanity. The research combines comparative ethnography with the anthropology of extraordinary experience (AEE), and focuses particularly on the Zulu, Cape Nguni, Shona and Khoisan groups. The use of the 'radical participation' method, as recommended by AEE, was facilitated by the author being identified as having a ' calling' from these water divinities, which subsequently resulted in her initiation under the guidance of a Zulu isangoma (diviner-healer) who had reputedly been taken underwater. The research details the rituals that were performed and how dreams are used to guide the training process of izangoma. This resulted in the research process being largely dream-directed, in that the author traces how the izangoma responded to various dreams she had and how these responses opened new avenues for understanding the phenomenon of the water divinities. The comparative study thus combines literature sources, field research and dream-directed experiences, and reveals a complex of recurring themes, symbols and norms pertaining to the water divinities across the selected groups. In seeking to explain both the commonalities and differences between these groups, the author argues for a four-level explanatory model that combines both conventional anthropological theory and extraordinary experience. Responses to the author's dream-led experiences are used to throw light on the conflicting discourses of morality regarding traditional healers and the water divinities in the context of political-economic transformations relating to capitalism and the moral economy; to illuminate the blending of ideas and practices between Zulu Zionists and diviner-healer traditions; and to link up with certain issues relating to San rock art, rain-making and healing rituals, which contribute to the debates regarding trance-induced rock art in southern Africa.
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Stokes, Clifford C. "Interdiocesan tribunals in Southern Africa." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4946.
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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 practice of its proponents, in the structural properties of their performances and tn the meanings attached to these practices. Firstly, Zionists, who are also called a Separatist or African Independent church, and isicathamiya performers have minimal education and are employed in low income jobs in the cities. Most groups are formed with 'homeboy networks'. Furthermore, performers, unlike their brothers in the city, cling tenaciously to usiko [custom and tradition]. Although they are Christians, they still worship Umvelinqangi [The One Who Came First], by giving oblations and other forms of offerings. Amadlozi [the ancestors] are still believed to be their mediators with God. Also commonplace in this category is the practice of ukuchatha, [cleansing the stomach with some prepared medicine]; and ukuphalaza [taking out bile by spewing, which is also done as a way of warding off evil spirits]. These are rural practices that have meaning in their present domiciles. The second area of similarity consists in the structure of the nocturnal gatherings that form the core of the ritual and performance practices among isicathamiya singers and Zionists. Thus, a core of the ritual of Zionists is umlindelo [night vigil] which takes place every weekend from about 8 at night until the following day. Likewise, isicathamiya performers have competitions every Saturday evening from 8 at night until about 11 am the following day. Although Zionists night vigils are liturgical and isicathamiya competitions secular, the structures of both isicathamiya choreography and Zionists body movements appear the same. These movements are both rooted in a variety of traditional styles called ingoma. Thirdly, the meanings attached to these symbolic correspondences must be looked for in the selective appropriation of practices and beliefs taken to be traditional. Using present day commentaries in song and movement, ingoma and other rural styles performed in competitions and Zionists night vigils reflect a reconstruction of the past. Isicathamiya performers and Zionists see themselves as custodians of Zulu tradition, keeping Zulu ethnicity alive in the urban environment. This is why in this study we are going to see rural styles like ingoma, isifekezeli [war drills], ukusina [solo dancing] that were performed on the fields, now performed, sort of feigned and 'held in' as they are p~rformed in dance halls with wooden stages.
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Stonier, Janet Elizabeth Thornhill. "Oral into written : an experiment in creating a text for African religion." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16127.
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Bibliography: pages 105-113.<br>This study is a description, from the vantage point of a participant observer, of the development of a new, and probably unique, method of writing, teaching and learning about an oral tradition - a method which is grounded in ways of knowing, thinking and learning inherent in that tradition. It arose in the course of a co-operative venture - between two lecturers in African Religion and myself - to write a text for South African schools on African Religion (sometimes called African Traditional Religion). Wanting to be true to our subject within the obvious constraints, we endeavoured to write within an oral mode. The product, African Religion and Culture, Alive!, is a transcript of taped oral interchanges between the three authors within a simulated, dramatised format. The simulation provided the context for using the teaching and learning strategies employed in an oral tradition, but within a Western institution. We hoped in this way to mirror and mediate a situation in which many South African students find themselves: at the interface between a home underpinned by an oral tradition, and a school underpinned by a written tradition. In the book, knowledge is presented through myth, biographical and autobiographical stories, discussion, question, and comment. The choice of this mode of knowledge-presentation has been greatly influenced by the work of Karen McCarthy Brown. A further important requirement for us was to produce a text that would be acceptable to all the particular varieties of African religious practice. This need was met in a way that became the most important aspect of the method - the device of setting, as a core part of the work for students, a primary research component. Students are required to seek out traditional elders within their community and learn from them, as authorities on African religion and culture, the details of particular practice. This is a way of decentering the locus of control of knowledge and education, as well as of restoring respect for African Religion and preserving information in danger of being lost. The primary research component highlights fundamental issues relating to the 'ownership' of religion, knowledge, power, reality which are explored in the study. Also considered are the implications of writing about an oral mode while trying to preserve as much of the character of that mode - writing by means of speaking. Text as a metaphor provides a frame for examining the process and the product - in terms of text as document, as score, as performance, as intertextual event, and as monument and site of struggle. Suggestions are made for further research, both on the particular method of text-production under consideration, and also on the approach to teaching and learning about African Religion. Also considered is the relevance of this particular learning and teaching approach to the values inherent in the proposed new curriculum for education in South Africa.
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Pettinger, Alasdair. "Irresistible charms : African religion and colonial discourse." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328351.
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Sogiba, Zolile Sydney. "Steve Bantu Biko: Politician, 'Historian' and 'Proponent' of African Traditional Religion." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14748.
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Bibliography: leaves 129-135.<br>The topic is "Steve Bantu Biko: Politician, 'Historian' and 'Proponent' of African Traditional Religion". It is known by everybody that Steve Bantu Biko was a politician. This has been revealed by his teachings, what his contemporaries have written and by his commitment to the course of the struggle. He displayed a commitment to the struggle for freedom of the oppressed blacks in South Africa. His ideology was 'Black Consciousness' which was a threat to the regime and an affirmation and a creation of true humanity for the oppressed. What became clear is the fact that there is a difference between a politician and a freedom fighter. To describe him as a freedom fighter is more appropriate than a politician. He was denied free political activity by the apartheid regime which clamped down on all opponents labelling them as 'un-Christian', 'heretic', 'rebels', 'agitators' and 'terrorists'. The 'Black Consciousness' ideology was viewed by the state as subversive. The question arises, how could a person who encouraged black community programmes and black unity be regarded as a terrorist? Fear from the whites of a black majority government is the cause for such an attitude. He was indeed a man of peace, an activist and not a terrorist. It has been noticeable that politics, history and religion are inseparable. This is a response to those who wonder what politics has to do with religion.
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Scharnick, Lee-Shae. "Siyakholwa: a study in religion, education and media in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12059.
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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>This thesis analyses the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) television production, Siyakholwa - We Believe. This series is the first and remains the only children’s multi-faith educational television programme produced for South African viewers. This thesis discusses how the constitutional ideal of religious pluralism is mediated through public service television. The relationships among the state, religion, public education and public service broadcasting in the light of post-apartheid policy are examined. By analysing national policy for religion in education and public service broadcasting along with theory about religion education, this thesis argues for the pedagogical viability of television for teaching about religion in South Africa.
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Waliggo, John Mary. "THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND RELIGION IN AUTHENTIC DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 1993. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,1687.
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Sakuba, Xolani Sherlock-Lee. "The relationsthip between sin and evil in African Christian theology." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=init_9071_1177918844.
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Classic Christian theology regards evil as the product of sin, the emphasis in traditional African religion and culture is on human sin as the result of evil forces. This thesis investigated the way in which African Christian theologians understand the relationship between sin and evil. The question, which was addressed was, does sin lead to evil or evil lead to sin.
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Kenan, John Sarauta. "The worship of God in African traditional religion : a Nigerian perspective." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17492.
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Bibliography: pages 89-92.<br>To date numerous works in the African traditional religion have appeared In this devoted to the description of field many have been particular religion phenomena, while some have attempted to refute the beliefs and practices of the religion. But examining the effort of various investigators who have grappled with this task, one has the impression that they may have overlooked something. This something is bringing together the beliefs and practices of African traditional religion to form the worships in other world religions. It can be said the worship of God in Africa traditional religion is the very soul of African religion. This study attempts and examines what some scholars have written about African traditional religion, its beliefs and practices, and brought it together to form what may be called the worship of God in the religion. In constructing the purpose of this study, many writers have been used. Here the writer would like to mention some scholars by name, because much of their material have been constantly used. Such scholars as John S. Mbiti, Geoffrey Parrinder and Emmanuel, Bolaji Idowu. These writers recorded careful observation of African traditional religion, its beliefs and practices. This provides useful insights into the worship of God in the religion. In achieving the study, the problem of ancestor-worship has been discussed, although a final conclusion has not been reached, because it is an ongoing debate. The practices and believes have been discussed as the starting point of the worship in religion. The study observed particular practices which constitute the worship. These includes: sacrifice, offering, prayer and the religious leaders who performed the worship. To make what constitutes the worship complete, the spiritual aspect of it has also been discussed. At the end of the study, some suggestions and recommendations have been made so as to stimulate and motivate the African students undertaking the studies of African traditional religion. It is also a challenge to the students who are studying African theology.
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Pewa, Sibusiso Emmanuel. "Song, dance, and worship in the Zionist Christian Churches: an ethnomusicological study of African music and religion." Thesis, University of Zululand, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1304.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in the Department of Music at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 1997.<br>The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between music
and worship in contemporary African society. Since there are various
forms of activities that constitute the African society, the study will
focus on the Zionists' Church music and worship from an
ethnomusicological point of view.
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Simiyu, Michael Wakhangu. "The concept of repentance in African traditional religion compared with Christianity /." Berlin : Viademica-Verl, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2950229&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Ferguson, Rene. "Strategies for teaching religion in colleges of education." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51437.
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Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 1999.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The revised norms and standards for teacher education requires an understanding of the
beliefs, values and practices of the main religions of South Africa. However, many preservice
teachers have emerged from backgrounds of monoreligious education, or from
schools where Religious education was discarded from the curriculum. This situation
implies that pre-service teachers may lack the knowledge and skills to cope within a
religiously pluralist school environment. This study argues therefore that the attitudes and
perceptions of pre-service teachers towards Religious education in particular and
religions in general will be positively influenced by means of a programme of
intervention.
The main aim of this study is to examine strategies for teaching religion to pre-service
teachers to equip them for the religious and cultural diversity of South African
classrooms. F euerstein' s theory of Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) is examined as
a vehicle for initiating new and creative ways of thinking about religions. Ten criteria for
MLE are implemented within a context of co-operative small group learning on the
grounds that learning about religions should take place in a constructivist paradigm. The
potential influence of a tutor/mediator on the perceptions and attitudes of pre-service
teachers towards religions other than their own is therefore a significant theme in this
study. The influence of a programme of intervention on student attitudes towards religion
and Religious education was determined within an action-enquiry research model. The
empirical research indicates that active participation in the learning process not only
enhanced student participants' knowledge and understanding of religious concepts, but
also fostered the value of an unbiased, positive approach to the study of religions.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hersiende norme en standaarde vir onderwysersopleiding verg 'n kennis van die geloof,
waardes en praktyke van die hoof religiee van Suid-Afrika. Nietemin kom baie
studentonderwysers uit 'n monoreligieuse opvoedingsagtergrond of van skole waar
religieuse onderrig van die kurrikulum verwyder is. Hierdie situasie impliseer dat
studentonderwysers nie die nodige kennis dra, of die nodige vaardighede het, om in 'n
pluralistiese religieuse skoolomgewing aan te pas nie. Hierdie studie argumenteer dat die
houdings en persepsies van studentonderwysers teenoor religieuse onderrig in die
besonder en religie in die algemeen positief be"invloed kan word deur middel van 'n
intervensieprogram.
Die hoofdoel van die studie is om verskillende strategiee in religieuse onderrig VIr
studentonderwysers te ondersoek om hulle toe te rus vir die religieuse en kulturele
diversiteit in Suid-Afrika. Feuerstein se teorie van Bemiddelde leerervaring (Mediated
Learning Experience, MLE) word ondersoek as 'n middel waardeur nuwe kreatiewe
denkmetodes oor religie ge"inisieer kan word. Tien kriteria van MLE word
ge"implementeer binne 'n konteks van kooperatiewe leergroepe op grond daarvan dat
religiee binne 'n konstruktivistiese paradigma moet plaasvind. Die potentiele invloed van
die fasiliteerder op die persepsies en houdings van studentonderwysers teenoor ander
religiee is dus 'n belangrike tema van die studie. Die invloed van 'n intervensieprogram
op studentehoudings teenoor religiee en religieuse onderrig was bepaal deur middel van
'n aksienavraag navorsingsmodel. Die empiriese navorsing motiveer die feit dat aktiewe
deelname in die leerproses nie net die deelnemende studentonderwysers se kennis en
begrip van religieuse konsepte verdiep het nie, maar ook 'n onbevooroordeelde positiewe
benadering tot die studie van religiee gekweek het.
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De, Mûelenaere Marc. "The canonical significance of marital fidelity among the Bantu of South Africa." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4739.
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El, Obaid El Obaid Ahmed. "Human rights and cultural diversity in Islamic Africa." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34495.
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This thesis establishes a framework for analysing and evaluating human rights within the contexts of global, African-Islamic and Sudanese cultural diversity. The normative impact of culture on international human rights is viewed from the perspective that culture is adaptive and flexible. African-lslamic culture, as exemplified by the Sudan, is no exception.<br>The first part of this thesis advances a theoretical framework for recognition of cultural diversity and its impact on human rights. Recognition of change as an integral part of culture is vital for a successful mobilisation of internal cultural norms to the support of international human rights. An important conclusion is that ruling elites and those engaged in human rights violations have no valid claim of cultural legitimacy.<br>The second part of the thesis examines the notion of human rights in traditional Africa and under Shari'a with a specific focus on conceptions of the individual, the nation-state and international law. It is argued that the African-Islamic context is an amalgam of both communitarianism and individualism; further, that the corrupt and oppressive nature of the nation-state in Islamic Africa demands an effective implementation of human rights as set out in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.<br>It is suggested in the third part of the thesis that three of the rights included in the African Charter are paramount to effective human rights protection in Islamic Africa: the right to self-determination, the right to freedom of expression and the right to participate in public life. These rights are examined within the Sudanese context in order to provide a more concrete illustration of their potential implementation. The dynamics of Sudanese culture are explored to exemplify a culturally responsive implementation of these rights.<br>This thesis contributes to the debate on the role of culture in enhancing the binding force of human rights and fundamental freedoms. It aims to inspire pragmatic discussion on the need for effective protection of human rights in order to alleviate the suffering of millions of Africans under existing ruthless and shameless regimes.
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Lerotholi, Gerard T. "The Acts of the Apostles and Ecclesia in Africa: An intertextual inquiry." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6369.
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This present work consists of six points: (1) Nature and Scope of the thesis; (2) Problem and Method (first part of chapter one); (3) Research Hypothesis (second part of chapter one); (4) The use of quotations from Acts in Ecclesia in Africa (chapters three and four); (5) The allusions to Acts in Ecclesia in Africa (chapter five); Finally, the synthesis and Evaluation of the results of the Research (chapter six). The present study is hermeneutical and interdisciplinary in nature since it deals with the applied interpretation of Scripture (Acts) in a magisterial document (Ecclesia in Africa) and the meaning that results thereof. The thesis is a research inquiry, analysis and evaluation of the intertextual links between the Acts of the Apostles and Ecclesia in Africa. First and foremost, the work consists in identifying these intertextual links and secondly in analyzing and evaluating their significance in Acts and then in Ecclesia in Africa. This research is a pioneering work in the intertextual reading of Acts and Ecclesia in Africa in a way that has not been undertaken before. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Lenaghan, Patricia Michelle. "The right to freedom of religion in the public domain in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9062_1363775015.
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<p>Within the context of South Africa&lsquo<br>s diverging religious, cultural and social backgrounds, new questions on the nature of a multicultural society are raised from the perspective of human rights. <br>The universality and indivisibility of human rights are challenged by this diversity and consequently implies that standards, concepts and structures for implementation have to be reconsidered. <br>International and national standards are being (re)interpreted and attention is not only focused on the contents of the norms but on the limitations imposed thereupon. The debate on whether limits should be set in permitting or accommodating cultural or religious pluralism is becoming extremely relevant. The manner in which these questions are responded to <br>is even more prominent in the light of our history of apartheid which has disregarded respect for religious and cultural diversity. In the scope of this research emphasis will be placed on the <br>right to freedom of religion and in particular the limitation of the right to religion in an attempt to balance conflicting rights and accommodates religious diversity. The right to freedom of religion <br>albeit constitutionally entrenched is subject to reasonable and justifiable limitations. However, no clear guidelines have been formulated on the criteria for limiting the right to freedom of <br>religion. The main aim of this research is to find guiding criteria to facilitate the imposition of limitations on the right to freedom of religion. The limitations of the right to freedom of religion are <br>interrelated with the following research questions: Firstly, the definition afforded to the right to freedom of religion in accordance with national and international standards<br>secondly, the relationship between culture and religion and any interconnection that exists between these rights. This is followed by the influence of the particular value framework or normative commitments <br>f the judiciary on the interpretation of the right to religion, as well as the relationship between the state and religion. The above issues will be researched both on a national and <br>an international level. The aim is to conduct research that will build on an appreciation of the guidelines that should be employed in ensuring the protection of the right to freedom of religion. To this end comparisons will be drawn with other legal <br>systems, which on the one hand acknowledge the protection of the right to freedom of religion and on the other hand have to find ways in which the right can be balanced in the event of conflict. It is envisaged that the research of the criteria imposed on the limitation of the right to religion both on a national and an international level will assist in suggesting criteria that will influence <br>scholarly debate on the topic. In addition that this debate will allow for the formulation of a transformative approach within the South African context that sanctions the celebration of diversity in all <br>its aspects and in particular the right to freedom of religion.<br />
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Walton, Karen Lynn. "The relationship between religion/spirituality and the general psychological well-being of the institutionalized elderly population in the Eastern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/5708.
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Psychological well-being has a number of known benefits and is important for the quality of life of the elderly in particular. South Africa can be considered a religious country with the majority of citizens identifying with some religious orientation. The elderly are considered to be a more religious segment of the population, leading to a quantitative exploratory study being undertaken in order to ascertain whether a correlation exists between psychological well-being and religiosity/spirituality in the elderly institutionalised population of South Africa. The General Psychological Well-Being Scale and ASPIRES was administered to a convenience sample of 336 participants in the Eastern Cape Province. A significant but weak positive correlation was found between the variables of psychological well-being and religiosity. A difference was also found between White and African participants’ level of psychological well-being. An ANOVA was performed on the demographic information collected from participants. It was found that higher levels of education and access to private medical care were associated with higher levels of psychological well-being. A regression analysis was also performed on the data. It was found that although religiosity/spirituality does account for some of the variance, there were still a large number of other factors that influence psychological well-being in the elderly that were not captured in this study. Limitations of the study are that the results can’t be generalised to elderly residing at home. All of the participants also lived in urban areas and so differences may be found with rural elderly. Some further directions for research are discussed.
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Omotoso, Andrew A. "Middle Schoolers' Attachment to God at Harmony Christian School, South Africa." Thesis, Nyack College, Alliance Theological Seminary, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10830182.
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<p> Harmony Christian School in Rustenburg, South Africa is a missionary outreach program of Bethel Gospel Assembly, Inc., New York. The school was founded in 2006 to educate learners and develop in them a close attachment with God even as they attained high academic standard in their school work. However, while there were established measures of academic progress from grade to grade, there was no comparable measure of the spiritual growth of the students in terms of how closely they were attached to God in their relationship as a result of their exposure to consistent Bible Study. The Researcher thus created an intervention study using the Attachment to God Inventory to measure the level of attachment of the adolescent learners to God in the school. The study did show that there was an attachment relationship between the learners and God. The study also showed that as a result of their consistent exposure to Bible study, there was a shift to a closer attachment to God. The level of the shift was minimal but statistically significant at a low level of confidence. The study then offered ministry recommendations. </p><p>
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Schader, Miriam. "Religion as a political resource ? : the religious and political involvement of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in two European cities." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013IEPP0019.
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Alors que la religion est souvent dépeinte comme un obstacle à la participation démocratique de migrants, cette thèse pose la question de savoir si la religion peut être une ressource pour l’engagement politique de migrants. Sur la base d’entretiens réalisés à Berlin et en Ile-de-France, la participation religieuse et politique de migrants d’Afrique sub-saharienne est analysée. Pour des raisons méthodologiques, l’accent est mis sur des organisations religieuses à Berlin. Une analyse des réseaux d’organisations africaines laïques, musulmanes et chrétiennes montre que les réseaux chrétiens sont les plus denses et les plus complets, alors que les musulmans sont presque isolés. Pour les organisations chrétiennes, leur religion est une ressource organisationnelle et symbolique qui accroît leur cohésion, leur coopération et la capacité d’agir de leurs leaders. De plus, leurs réseaux religieux leur donnent accès à d’autres ressources. L’analyse herméneutique des entretiens révèle que les fédérations des chrétiens africains à Berlin ont une perspective politique et s’engagent politiquement, alors que leur légitimité est fondée sur la religion. De plus, les migrants chrétiens utilisent leur religion comme ressource symbolique pour revaloriser une identité africaine dans un contexte souvent marqué par la discrimination. La comparaison entre les deux villes montre cependant qu’il y a des différences significatives entre les deux contextes et entre les religions et les confessions. Ceci mène à la conclusion que la religion peut être une ressource organisationnelle et symbolique pour la participation et la mobilisation politiques de migrants,mais seulement dans certaines circonstances<br>While migrant religion is often portrayed as an obstacle to democratic participation, this thesis raises the question whether religion can be a resource for the political involvement of migrants. Based on interviews made in Berlin and the Parisian agglomeration, the religious and political engagement of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa is analysed. For methodological reasons, the main focus is on religious organisations in Berlin. A formal analysis of networks of African secular, Muslim and Christian organisations in Berlin shows that Christian networks are the densest and most encompassing, whereas Muslims are almost isolated. For Christian organisations, religion is an organisational and a symbolic resource for unity, cooperation, and for increasing their leaders’ capacity to act. Also, their religious networks provide access to resources such as premises or support by the non-migrant population. The hermeneutic analysis of the interview material reveals that, while their legitimacy is based on religion, the federations set up by African Christians in Berlin are explicitly political in their outlook and get involved politically. Also, Christian migrants draw on their religion as a symbolic resource to revalorise an African identity in a context often marked by disrespect and discrimination. Muslims do not seem to have the same option. The comparison between the two cities, however, demonstrates that there are significant differences between the two contexts and between religions and confessions. This leads to the conclusion that religion may be an organisational and a symbolic resource for the political involvement of migrants, but under certain circumstances only
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Driesen, Danika. "The alienated religion studies teacher: a case study in Cape Town, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25264.
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South Africa's post-apartheid National Policy on Religion and Education instituted in 2003 ushered in a new paradigm for the study of religion in the country's schools. It promotes a programme of teaching and learning about religious diversity that constitute the nation. While this revised policy enabled Religion Studies educators to grapple with new ways of thinking about the study of religion, it still demanded them to assume a standardised role that focused more on their duties and responsibilities of promoting a multi-religious approach in an impartial manner. This homogenous policy image neglected the teachers' interpretations and reality of the profession. Consequently, a gap emerged between the policy-imagined role and Religion Studies teachers' perspectives. This thesis explores the gap between what the national policy expects from the teachers and their readiness for teaching Religion Studies. Rahel Jaeggi's concept of alienation is used to critically analyse the alienating effects of the national policy images' failure in recognising the realities of the profession. Jaeggi provides a renewed framework on the concept that entails critically analysing an individual's social role in terms of how s/he succeeds or fails to appropriate and identify with it. A case study research of eleven teachers who taught Religion Studies in high schools in Cape Town, South Africa was conducted. The findings reveal that the gap disrupted their roles, and resulted in a 'double' alienation for them. It also shows educators integrating their religious identities into their teaching methods, which enhanced their proficiency at teaching the subject and alleviating their 'double' alienation. The teachers' methodologies demonstrate that they are open enough to approach the aims of Religion Studies, and to approach diversity that is not from the national policy's perspective of a distant secular approach, but rather one that opens their own religious traditions to new ones. I argue that despite the Religion Studies teachers alleviating their 'double' alienation to some extent by integrating their religious identities into their teaching methods, they still remained in a state of alienation due to the post-apartheid government's top-down education strategy.
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Forward, Martin Howard Frank. "An examination of Geoffrey Parrinder's contribution to the study of religion." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/d8c9b87e-61e7-42e0-8f93-f6ebe96d2471.
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Chetty, Kasturi. "The interaction of children's rights, education rights and freedom of religion in South African schools." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020864.
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This study examines the topic of the interaction of children’s rights, education rights and freedom of religion in South African schools from a legal perspective. It comprises of a discussion on the historical development of religion in South African schools; South Africa’s international obligations with regards to children’s rights, education rights and freedom of religion and the South African substantive law pertaining to children rights, education and freedom of religion as impacting on legal issues pertaining to religion in schools. The study utilises a desktop approach, which comprises of a wide range of legal and other literary sources, international instruments, statutes and case law on children’s rights, education rights and freedom of religion. Importantly, it highlights the integral connection between these aforementioned rights when dealing with issues pertaining to religion in schools. This thesis illustrates that much of the historical development of religion in schools took place without consideration of children’s rights, or more particularly, the best interests of the learners. Instead, (a particular brand of) religious beliefs were promoted in education above other religions and the well-being of school-children. Furthermore, despite the introduction of specific children’s rights into the Constitution, this thesis emphasises that the rights of children have still not been recognised sufficiently in education laws and policies. It is submitted that children’s rights have a paramount and practical role to play in matters pertaining to religion in South African schools. Consequently, it is recommended that children’s rights, more particularly the best interests of the child principle, should be expressly introduced into education legislation and policies. This will create legal obligations for school administrators and SGBs on the inclusion of children’s rights in religious exemption procedures. Furthermore, it is recommended that national guidelines on religious/cultural exemptions (which incorporate children’s rights) be developed which will set legal parameters for the handling of religious/cultural exemption procedures in schools. This thesis also argues against the interpretation that the right to establish private schools includes the right to require religious conformity from non-adherent learners by way of a complete waiver of their religious freedom. Despite the importance of respecting the right of religious communities to protect and preserve their faith in private schools, it is submitted that this right cannot be exercised without regard for the religious freedom, dignity and best interests of non-adherent children. As a result, it is submitted that the waiver of the freedom of religion of non-adherent children is not consistent with the values which South African society reveres and therefore cannot be enforced. This thesis suggests that there is a way for the rights of private schools and the rights of non-adherent children to co-exist in harmony through the application of the reasonable accommodation principle in private schools. Reasonable accommodation of different faiths teaches religious tolerance to leaners in private schools and ensures that they are prepared to grapple with the religious diversity that they will inevitably face outside of the school environment. It is submitted that the enforcement of reasonable accommodation in private schools is to the benefit of all learners in private schools and to South African society in general. Moreover, this study questions and analyses the state’s provision of compulsory religion education in public schools through the National Policy on Religion and Education. A theoretical distinction is made between religion education and religious instruction in the National Policy itself. Religious instruction refers to the teaching of specific religious beliefs. Religion education refers to the teaching about different religions and worldviews from an academic perspective. It is submitted that the National Policy is correct in removing religious instruction from public schools as this would not be in accordance with freedom of religion or equality rights of learners who are not of the majority faith. It is submitted further that, although the provision of compulsory religion education in public schools impacts upon the freedom of religion of learners and their parents, (if taught correctly) it is a reasonable and justifiable limitation on freedom of religion in that it pursues the legitimate state goal of nation-building through the teaching of religious tolerance and “celebrating diversity” in schools. In light of South Africa’s history of religious discrimination, it must be recognised that the current position (although not problem- free) is a significant step forward in the protection of minority religious rights in South African schools. Despite this, it is submitted that there are numerous problems with the implementation of the National Policy that impact upon the dignity, equality and other rights of the learners concerned. These problems cannot be ignored since they impact upon the daily lives of school children. However, many of these problems can be minimised through more effective teacher training in this subject area. Accordingly, this thesis recommends that the current position be maintained as an acceptable compromise between the two extremes of providing religious instruction in one faith and removing religion education from public schools altogether. However, it emphasises that the state has to make a concerted effort to improve teacher training in this subject area in order to ensure that the objectives of the National Policy are carried out as envisaged. Furthermore, this thesis finds that certain provisions of the National Policy contain not only educational goals, but spiritual goals. Also in some instances, it is difficult to determine whether the religion education curriculum borders on being religious or not. In accordance with freedom of religion, it is submitted that the line between religion education and religious instruction must be clearly drawn in law and in practice. Consequently, the state must reconsider the National Policy and the corresponding religion education curriculum to ensure that they are aligned with the objectives of nation-building in all respects, meaning that any provisions or learning outcomes which have purely spiritual goals- must be amended or removed.
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Wamala, Joseph M. "The assessment and perspectives of the special assembly for Africa of the synod of bishops." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0013/NQ52280.pdf.
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Stephenson, Mark H. "African music in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa : a case study in the Western Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15673.
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This study is an appraisal of African Music within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa with particular reference to the Western Cape. I develop and amplify a pilot study 4 in order to provide a model for further research into African Music in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. The subject has a certain topical relevance. Many Churches are not only producing new hymn books but are also experimenting with new ways of communicating the gospel through music. 5 More recently, the Africanisation committee of the C.U.C. (Church Unity Commission) directed by its convenor the Rev. E. Baartman (President Elect of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa) recommended that the C.U.C. co-ordinate research into "Black theology, African liturgy and furthermore, at the Fifth Annual Symposium on Ethnomusicology, 30 August 1984 - 1 September 1984, Alain Barker reported that "while all agreed that the international perspective the Conference provided was of great value, serious debate on how the subject should be dealt with in this country was limited to a brief discussion at the end" . Some critics felt more practical involvement in African Music should have been a part of the Conference. In other words an academic assessment needs to be grounded in practice. (a) My purpose is to determine the meaning of African Music in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, and to show that African Music is a contact point between Church and Culture, facilitating cultural liberation. (b)I have erected a framework to order the results of my research. It may be claimed that the method of approach is in many ways novel. Field work, recording and documentation on African Music in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa has to my knowledge never been published. This research is an attempt to make a start. We need to listen to Africa. As a fourth generation Methodist Minister, where else could I begin other than in the Methodist Church? As can be expected in an exploratory study, these findings point to areas which need more investigation. African Music articulates the most viable approach to respond to both the demands of the Gospel and African Culture. The aim of this study is to promote and teach people an appreciation of African Music within the broader context of the Church. (c) In the light of this, I have attempted four things: (i) African Music in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa is located in its broader African context by an examination of the roots of the Church within the Protestant tradition. (ii) Oral evidence was collected as a basis for critical reflection. (iii) A critical reflection is undertaken on some of the issues implicit in the words and music. (iv) An attempt is made to suggest ways and means of developing African Music within the life of the Church.
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adams, jimi. "Religion networks and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1179942482.
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Koopman, Nico Norman. "Dade of deugde? Implikasies vir Suid-Afrikaanse kerke van 'n modern-postmoderne debat oor die moraliteit." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2000. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3734_1181558615.
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Braaf, Annetta Johanna. "Bybelonderrig in staat- en staatsondersteunde skole in 'n multi-religieuse samelewing." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/58294.
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Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 1994.<br>Includes bibliography<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The relevance of Biblical Instruction and
Instruction in state and state-supported schools
Africa is reviewed in this thesis. The various
Religious
in South
education
departments in South Africa have been presenting religious
instruction from a Christian perspective in schools,
especially since 1967. It is also clear from a demographic
distribution of religions that most of South Africa's
inhabitants belong to the Christian faith. People and
pupils who are not Christians are exempted from religious
instruction in accordance with the conscience clause.
Because of changing political and social circumstances and
school structures due to the implementation of statesupported
schools, there has been a strong emphasis on the
presentation of Biblical Instruction or Religious
Instruction as a school subject. Aspects of this which
receive particular the
following:
the relevance
dispensation;
attention
of the
in this thesis are
subject in the teaching
the legitimacy of the subject due to the negative
experience of Christian National Education in the past;
the lack of recognition of religious pluralism in state
and state-supported schools in South Africa.
The presentation of the traditional single-dimensional
approach is investigated, but the possibility of a multireligious
approach to address the problem is also explored.
The thesis includes a theoretical study of international and
national sources as well as an empirical survey conducted at
41 selected secondary schools in the Western Cape and Boland. Questionnaires were used for the survey which
involved the following education departments:
The Department of Education and Culture.
The Department of Education and Training.
The Cape Education Department.
It emerged clearly from the survey that religious pluralism
is a reality in state and state-supported schools. The
theoretical and empirical studies also highlighted the
following problems:
the professional qualifications of religious
instruction teachers;
the child's religious potential and development which
are not taken into account;
the child's own religious experiences and experiences
in the classroom situation which are not addressed;
the issue of the legitimacy of the subject as a
consequence of its historical context;
the lack of relevance of the subject content;
the interest in a multi-religious approach among the
majority of teachers as well as pupils.
The problems will not be
multi-religious approach
solved simply by
in the schools.
converting to a
The problems
experienced in the single-dimensional approach should first
be addressed thoroughly.
For a legitimate multi-religious approach, the following
should be taken into consideration:
the child's religious potential and development;
the child's own religious and personal experiences;
possible further in-service training for teachers to
enable them to cope with such an approach;
a change in the process of curriculum development in
order to address the issue of religious pluralism;
a new name for the subject. In this respect a name such
as Religious Studies could be usefully implemented.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die relevansie van Bybelonderrig of Godsdiensonderrig in
staat- en staatsondersteunde skole in Suid-Afrika word in
hierdie tesis in oenskou geneem. Die onderskeie onderwysdepartemente
in Suid-Afrika het veral sedert 1967 godsdiensonderrig
vanuit 'n Christelike perspektief in skole
aangebied. Uit die demografiese geloofsverspreiding het dit
oak geblyk dat die meeste inwoners van Suid-Afrika aan die
Christelike geloof behoort. Persone en leerlinge wat nie
tot die Christendom behoort nie, is gevrywaar van godsdiensonderrig
op grand van die gewetensklousule.
Met die veranderde politieke en sosiale omstandighede en
skoolsamestelling met die implementering van staatsondersteunde
skole I is daar 'n sterk fokus op die aanbieding van
Bybelonderrig of Godsdiensonderrig as skoolvak. Aspekte
waaraan veral in hierdie tesis aandag gegee is, is die
volgende:
die relevansie van die vak in die onderwysbedeling;
die legitimiteit van die vak as gevolg van die negatiewe
ervaring van die Christelik-nasionale onderwys in
die verlede;
die afwesigheid van die erkenning van religieuse pluralisme
in staat- en staatsondersteunde skole in Suid-Afrika.
Die aanbieding van die tradisionele enkelvoudige benadering
is ondersoek, maar die moontlikheid van 'n multi-religieuse
benadering om die probleem aan te spreek, word oak aangespreek.
Teoretiese studie op internasionale en nasionale vlak, sowel
as n empiriese doelgerigte steekproef is geloods aan 41 geselekteerde sekondere skole in die Wes-Kaap en Bolandstreek.
Vir die doelgerigte steekproef is van vraelyste
gebruik gemaak waarin die volgende onderwysdepartemente en
privaatskole betrek is:
Die Departement van Onderwys en Kultuur.
Die Departement van Onderwys en Opleiding.
Die Kaaplandse Onderwysdepartement.
Uit die doelgerigte steekproef het dit duidelik geblyk dat
religieuse pluralisme 'n werklikheid in staat- en staatsondersteunde
skole is. Die teoretiese en empiriese studie
het ook die volgende probleme belig, nl.:
die professionele bevoegdheid van godsdiensonderwysleerkragte;
die kind se religieuse potensiaal en ontwikkeling wat
nie in ag geneem word nie;
die kind se eie religieuse en lewenservarings in die
klassituasie wat nie aangespreek word nie;
'n legitimiteitskwessie van die vak as sodanig vanwee
sy historiese konteks;
die afwesigheid van relevansie van die vakinhoud;
'n belangstelling in n multi-religieuse benadering
deur die meerderheid van die leerkragte sowel as leerlinge.
Die problematiek sal nie sander meer opgelos word met 'n
oorskakeling na n multi-religieuse benadering in die skool
nie. Die probleme wat in die enkelvoudige benadering ervaar
word, behoort eers deeglik aangespreek te word.
Vir 'n legitieme multi-religieuse benadering behoort die
volgende in aanmerking geneem te word:
die kind se religieuse potensiaal en ontwikkeling;
die kind se eie religieuse en lewenservarings;
die moontlike verdere indiensopleiding van leerkragte
om so in benadering te kan hanteer;
'n verandering in die kurrikuleringsproses om religieuse
pluralisme aan te spreek;
'n nuwe benaming vir die vak as sodanig. In hierdie
verband sou 1 n vaknaam soos Religieuse Studie sinvol
geimplementeer kon word.
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Nyanungo, Martha. "Tensions and conflicts between formal and traditional sex education in Africa-sub-Sahara." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/23609.
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Esta dissertação visa estudar a influência que a educação sócio-cultural e religiosa exercem na educação sexual formal em escolas no Zimbabwe. Para a investigação, foi levantada a seguinte questão: "A educação sexual formal ministrada em escolas está a ser sublevada pela educação sexual adquirida através de normas socioculturais, religiosas das famílias Africanas?” Entretanto, se a educação sexual não é Afro-centrada e culturalmente relevante a nível do conteúdo, ela não pode ser efetiva e as mulheres jovens continuarão expostas aos maiores desafios sexuais de hoje. Ao responder a esta e outras questões da pesquisa, achámos o método qualitativo o mais apropriado para a recolha de dados culturalmente específicos e contextualmente ricos, pois, é esse o objetivo deste estudo.
Através de entrevistas etnográficas, a intenção foi a de gravar vozes de jovens mulheres Shonas que, representam todo mosaico sócio-étnico do país. Isso permitiu-me obter informações consistentes e coerentes de como a sexualidade é definida e percebida entre os Shonas, e como a referida perceção se entrelaça com a instrução formal religiosa sobre a sexualidade. Outros instrumentos de recolha de informação para o nosso estudo incluíram análise minuciosa de livros escolares e de documentos do Ministério da Educação, Desporto e Cultura do Zimbabwe.
Entre vários resultados curiosos produzidos pela pesquisa, o de maior realce revela que a educação sexual formal ministrada nas escolas no Zimbabwe não incorpora conteúdos suficientemente relevantes para os adolescentes sexualmente ativos. A inadequação baseia-se na abordagem não realista e errônea da abstinência como o método e resolução insuperável para os dilemas da sexualidade. Como desvantagem, a cultura e a religião também são vistas como desafios para a educação sexual efetiva nas escolas. Com base nesses resultados, o nosso estudo conclui com recomendações que devem ser levadas em consideração ao se elaborar um currículo de educação integral mais eficaz e operacional sobre educação sexual; ABSTRACT:
Tensions and conflicts between formal and traditional sex education in Africa sub-Sahara
This dissertation aims to investigate the interplay between the socio-religio-cultural aspects and formal sex education in schools in Zimbabwe. Because young women fall victim to most of the traditional, religio-cultural sexuality adversities, the research focuses on young Shona women. The study interrogates whether the formal sex education being taught in schools faces setbacks from sex education being instructed through African family socio-cultural and religious norms. Qualitative methodology was found to be the most appropriate for the production of culturally specific and contextually rich data that the research is aimed at. Collection of data was achieved through document analysis participant observation and ethnographic interviews.
Of the many intriguing findings of this research, a major finding is that curricula is detached from overarching philosophical worldviews, cultural traditions, and the general actualities of sexually active teenagers. Its inadequacy is based on the unrealistic and erroneous approach to abstinence as the unsurpassable resolution to sexuality dilemmas. The study evidences that the deep-rootedness of some traditional practices, mythologies, and taboos associated with sexuality as well as the tenacity of some forms of traditional modes of sexuality education continue to exert a powerful influence on formal sexuality education in schools. The findings further reveals that the prescriptive and fear-based teaching methods do not foster enough critical thinking to empower students to face sexuality and reproductive health challenges.
This viewpoint continues to play a significant role in shaping attitudes, beliefs, and values in relation to sexuality even in contemporary times. Based on these findings, the study con-cludes with recommendations for designers of sexuality education curricula to consider the convergent and divergent aspects and draw from strengths of the co-existing heritages in order to build an integrated sexuality education pedagogy that is culturally relevant for the young women in Zimbabwe.
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Lackovičová, Eva. "Religious Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Political Implications." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193894.
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The master's thesis 'Religious Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Political Implications' is divided into three chapters which aim at defining the region of Sub-Saharan Africa, and further introducing the concept of religious pluralism, religion and its impact on politics and security situation in general and in Nigeria, which was chosen for the case study. The aim was to find out how religion influences society, politics and conflicts in Nigeria. In a region where religion is very important, an analysis of all these factors is interesting and crucial for future developments.
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Theilen, Uta. "Gender, race, power and religion women in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in post-apartheid society /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2003/0649/.
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Mukangara, Martha. "Evangelism as a local church outreach ministry to women and children affected with HIV and AIDS at Chikanga UMC in Zimbabwe, Africa." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/334.
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Of the many challenges that Zimbabwe is facing, the HIV and AIDS pandemic ranks most threatening. This project draws attention and focuses on set-ups probing into the nature of the approaches to combat the pandemic. Given the issues surrounding the spread of the virus, including, for example, stigmatization/discrimination, sexuality, models of transmission, cultural beliefs and practices, trauma, health-care services, aid organizations as well as governance issues. People raise questions that cut across the societal belief terrains on the one hand, and scientific/technological advancements on the other. This project explores how to empower women and children with HIV and AIDS and proposes eight healthy practices and a year- program outline for in- depth understanding and assimilation of caring awareness designed for children in Sunday school, youth in Bible Study, and adults in women’s/men’s fellowship groups. This project comprises of four chapters and uses library research, including reviews of published studies, books and articles written from the perspective of women affected with HIV and AIDS and caring for AIDS patients. The first chapter introduces and delineates the nature and scope of the project. The second chapter provides the overview of the history of Zimbabwe, describes the current state of women and children and causes of HIV and AIDS, and transformation through evangelism model in relationship with Atlanta Interfaith AIDS Network program (AlAN). The third chapter highlights the positive and negative role of religion in Zimbabwe, definition of HIV and AIDS in the African tradition, and negative role of Christians in Zimbabwe. The fourth chapter identifies theology of reconstruction and concept of “Jesus the only way to salvation.” The fifth chapter addresses the ministry title, which is Pastoral Leadership, Theology, Healthy Congregations and Community, and liberating people from different problems. The sixth chapter offers the outline of the project. It involves the primary settin~ secondary setting, and producing a complete dissertation of the total project. The seventh chapter sums up the necessity of healthy congregation in the 21S1 century, and needs of transformation in the nature of HIV and AIDS. The eighth chapters are the bibliographical References.
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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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Franke, Katharina. ""We call it Springbok-German!": language contact in the German communities in South Africa." Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2009. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/68398.
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Varieties of German are spoken all over the world, some of which have been maintained for prolonged periods of time. As a result, these transplanted varieties often show traces of the ongoing language contact as specific to their particular context. This thesis explores one such transplanted German language variety – Springbok- German – as spoken by a small subset of German Lutherans in South Africa. Specifically, this study takes as its focus eight rural German communities across two South African provinces, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, which were founded in the second half of the 19th century. The study employs a broadly ethnographic approach and integrates participant observation with interviews and (limited) questionnaire data. On the one hand, it addresses issues of language maintenance and shift, and on the other, presents findings from an analysis of grammatical features, that is morphosyntactic and syntactic features, of this particular German language variety. The thesis explores the domains where speakers continue to make use of German, by discussing practices at home, within the church and community, and at school. It also briefly considers German media consumption. The findings reveal that the home and the church/community constitute the strongholds of German language maintenance, although intermarriage is having an increasing impact on these patterns. Changes in the demographics of the communities, e.g. out-migration of younger speakers and barely any in-migration, are also shown to be detrimental to the continued survival of German in this region. Conceptualising these communities as ethnoreligious ones where (Luther) German functions as a ‘sacred variety’ (cf. Fishman, 2006a) helps to account for the prolonged maintenance patterns as exhibited by the communities. The study explores how the communities are shaped by their German Lutheranism and a 19th century understanding of Volkstum, and how this resulted in an insistence on preserving the German language and culture at all costs. This is still transparent today. This study also seeks to provide new insights into the structure of Springbok- German, and, for this purpose, explores a number of (morpho)syntactic features, including case marking, possessive constructions, word order, and infinitive complements. Although the overall findings indicate that Springbok-German is (still) relatively conservative, there are clear indications of emerging structural changes. While reduction in the case system, for example, is not as advanced as in other transplanted German varieties, the accusative/dative distinction is becoming increasingly blurred. Changes are also apparent in possessive constructions and word order. In this context, the study considers the fundamental question of the role language contact plays in such situations, i.e. whether the respective changes can plausibly be attributed to contact with Afrikaans and/or English, or whether they are best seen as the result of language-internal tendencies. The conclusion follows that it is difficult to ascertain the precise role of external influence vs. internal developments. The developments in Springbok-German are best seen as resulting from a combination of both, shaped furthermore by the social conditions as prevalent in this particular language contact setting.
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Eriksson, Elisabet. "Christian Communities and Prevention of HIV among Youth in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-155097.
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Young people in South Africa, particularly females, are at great risk of acquiring HIV, and heterosexual sex is the predominant mode of HIV transmission. In order to curb the epidemic the Department of Health encourages all sectors in the society, including religious institutions, to respond effectively. The present thesis seeks to increase the understanding of the role of Christian communities in prevention of HIV for young people. Three denominations in KwaZulu-Natal were selected to reflect the diversity of Christian churches in South Africa: the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, and the Assemblies of God. Using qualitative interviews the first paper explores how religious leaders (n=16) deal with the conflict between the values of the church and young people’s sexuality. Study II reports on attitudes to HIV prevention for young people among religious leaders (n=215) using questionnaire survey data. Study III investigates how young people (n=62) reflect on messages received from their churches regarding premarital sex by analysing nine focus group discussions. In the fourth paper, based on questionnaire survey data, we report on young people’s (n=811) experiences of relationships with the opposite sex and their perceived risk of HIV infection. The view that young people in churches are sexually active before marriage was common among religious leadership. The majority of religious leaders also reported that they are responsible for educating young people about HIV prevention. Religious leaders who had received training on HIV were more likely to run a life skills programme for young people, however they were ambivalent about prevention messages. Young people reported premarital sexual abstinence as the main HIV prevention message from their churches. The majority responded that they had received information about HIV in church. To be in a relationship was common, more so for males for whom multiple relationships also were viewed more acceptable. To perceive themselves at risk of HIV infection was common. Further training for religious leaders is needed to enable them to manage the conflict between the doctrine of the church and their willingness to assist young people in the transition into adulthood.<br>Faculty of Medicine
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McCarty, Matthew M. "Votive stelae, religion and cultural change in Africa proconsularis and numidia 200 BC-AD 300." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522769.
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Moyo, Precillar. "The relevance of culture and religion to the understanding of children's rights in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4722.
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The aim of this paper is to explore the influence of culture and religion on the rights of the child from a South African perspective. This paper does not engage in a debate about whether children's rights are universal or not. The underlying premise is that children's rights are universal. The paper simply uses the universalism and cultural relativism debate as an entry point to a discussion of children's rights in the South Africa. It will explore the extent to which culture and religion influence and impact the interpretation of children's constitutional rights which are modelled on the CRC. The paper will therefore critically and comparatively consider how South African courts have attempted to reconcile universal norms with historical, cultural and religious peculiarities in defining rights and their resultant effect on children and their welfare.
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Kruss, Glenda. "Religion, class and culture : indigenous churches in South Africa, with special reference to Zionist-Apostolics." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17025.
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Part one establishes the problematic of this primarily historical and theoretical work on indigenous churches in South Africa. The existing literature is surveyed, explanatory themes isolated and a critique of the dominant functionalist framework offered. A different theoretical framework - historical materialism - is proposed, in order to bring new insights into the explanation of indigenous churches. A periodisation of the South African social formation, and three corresponding forms of indigenous churches is proposed. Part two considers each of these in a schematic form. It is hypothesized that Ethiopian churches arose at the turn of the century in the Transvaal and Eastern Cape amongst the emerging African petit-bourgeoisie. They were the religious response to unequal incorporation in the developing capitalist social formation. An early form of Zionism, Zion City Churches, arose between the two World Wars, in a period of intense resistance to proletarianization. In each region they were shaped by the particular conditions and conflicts. An attempt is made to demonstrate that, in contrast, Zionist-Apostolics arose after World War II as a church of the black working class. Instead of explaining them in terms of acculturation, it is hypothesized that their healing form can be understood as an expression and a protest of the alienation of the black working class. As a religious-cultural innovation they succeed in subverting missionary hegemony and gaining control over the means of salvation, and in this way, of their own lives. Part three attempts to evaluate the contribution of a historical materialist analysis to understanding religion, and to isolate directions for future research.
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Munyi, James Mwangi. "Maximizing the impact of print media in church development in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (P.C.E.A.) (Kenya)." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1997. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/AAIDP14683.
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According to the report of the Communications Committee of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (P.C.E.A.) to the 15th General Assembly, the church is aware of the immensity of information, education and revelation that can be shared and disseminated through the print media in the church. 1 However, to effectively disseminate the Gospel through the print media requires some creativity and administrative initiatives in the national office and particularly in the division of Communications and Publishing.
As an initiative proposal, this dissertation examines how the P.C.E.A. has used print media from the missionary period (early 1900) to the mid-1990s, and offers proposals for maximizing print media impact in church development and social transformation. This dissertation is the final stage and result of a Doctor of Ministry project study and research conducted in Kenya and the United States between 1993 and 1997.
Four parts comprised of eight chapters compose the dissertation. Part I is the ministry setting, containing chapters One and Two. Chapter One is a brief description of the nation of Kenya in terms of geography, history and politics. It is the wider context of this project. Chapter Two introduces the Presbyterian Church of East Africa as the central setting of the project. The history, the organizational structure and theological stance of this church are here discussed.
Part II is the main body of the dissertation. It is the ministry issue, and it is divided into Chapters Three and Four. Chapter Three contains the history of print media in the P.C.E.A., with some remarks on the early beginnings of print media in Europe. Chapter Four is a brief examination of biblical and theological basis for print media use.
Part III is the project, containing Chapters Five and Six. Chapter Five includes a review of six key texts which have been helpful in this research. The texts are: Keeping Your Church Informed by Austin Brodie; 2 Let the People Know: A Media Handbook for Churches by Charles Austin;3 Communications Media in the Nigerian Church Today by Boniface Ntomchukwu;4 How to Publicize Church Activities by William J. Barrows, Jr.; 5 Communication for Development by Karl Lundstrom; 6 and Hope for Africa by G. Kinoti.7 This chapter also includes questionnaire responses from a cross section of participants in Kenya and America, including the P.C.E.A. ministers living in Atlanta at the time, and members of the International Class of First Presbyterian Church-Atlanta. Chapter Six includes interviews, briefs from some P.C.E.A. leaders, and workshop proceedings from the P.C.E.A. Nkoroi and Chuka churches and from First Presbyterian Church-Atlanta.
Part IV is the project evaluation. This final part contains Chapters Seven and Eight. Chapter Seven discusses recommendations for possible implementation of the proposals or suggestions made in the dissertation. These primarily relate to finance, training and structural innovations and changes. Chapter Eight is the conclusion, restating the purpose of the project. It emphasizes questions of faith and the sense of urgency in doing whatever it takes to maximize the impact of print media in the P.C.E.A. for God's glory and the blessing of the church.
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Meiring, Arnold Maurits. "Heart of Darkness a deconstruction of traditional Christian concepts of reconciliation by means of a religious studies perspective on the Christian and African religions /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10312005-093457/.
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Mungiriria, Patrick Kabubu. "What is needed to foster change in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa in terms of leadership and personnel appointments (Kenya)." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1996. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/AAIDP14653.
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Purpose. The purpose of this project was to explore ways and administrative means for fostering change in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa in terms of leadership and personnel appointments. This denomination, with historical roots and structure in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, functions now as an African denomination with unique situations relative to its culturally diverse membership. This study was initiated by the current surge in church growth and expansions in Kenya, and a subsequent decline in effective church leadership. The current shortage of ministers and other personnel has intensified the problem and created a style of church administration characterized by 'authoritative leadership' controlled by a few. This has diminished the kind of leadership needed for the broader areas of ministry required by church growth. The current procedure for the appointing of personnel in parishes, in church sponsored schools and in hospitals is also quite inadequate. This study was designed to determine the specific problems and to seek ways to help correct the situation through some changes which can be recommended to the church.
Method and procedures. This project was undertaken at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, under the leadership of a faculty appointed doctoral committee, with assistance from ministers and their families from the Presbyterian Church of East Africa studying in Atlanta, other Presbyterian students from Africa, consultants, as well as P.C.E.A. members and Church officials in Kenya. The local participants were used as a project group which met in six structured discussion sessions, each with different foci, two of which were led by church consultants. Questionnaires were used as research tools with local participants as well as participants in Kenya. Church officials in Kenya were interviewed by telephone, with a follow-up analyses by the project group and the writer.
The project input also reflects the writer's library research including books and periodicals which were obtained directly from Kenya. A historical study was made of different types of leadership styles and personnel appointment procedures employed from the inception of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa with Scottish missionaries denomination through models currently operating in the denomination.
Conclusions and recommendations. This study concluded with recommendations which can be summarized as follows.
1. The suspension of the 'Right of Call' by the denomination in the early 1960s was done without careful study. After making the desired adjustments and changes, this method of posting pastors should be introduced again as a pilot project in certain areas for a period of ten (10) years to determine the effectiveness of this process. The Appointments Committee should monitor the implementation of the 'Right of Call' by parishes, and be allowed to intervene in situations where the respect of the 'Right of Call' is assessed to be abused. The final appointment letter should come from the Secretary of the Appointments Committee, thus reminding the pastors that they are answerable both to the parish and to the presbytery. Ministers salaries should then be determined in accordance with the 'Right of Call,' and funds should be made available to develop those areas which have no 'Right of Call.'
2. Reduce the bureaucracy of P.C.E.A. by returning the power of leadership to the Presbyteries. This will remove the power from the 'head office' personnel (Moderator, Secretary General, and Finance Officer) to local Presbyteries, thus, allowing a more democratic form of leadership. This will also allow a more democratic form of appointment of personnel for ministers, hospitals and schools, wherein local tribes, cultures and customs can be taken into consideration with respect. Allow the office of the moderator of the General Assembly to be more of a ceremonial office rather than an executive office. During the study it was determined by the project group and the writer that the Presbyterian Church of East Africa has been influenced by the episcopal system of bishops which is antithetical to denominations in the (Presbyterian) Reformed tradition. Merge head office 'departments' into 'desks' with similar areas of concern, so that there are fewer personnel in the head office, further strengthening the administrative role of Presbyteries.
3. The church should take seriously its pastoral responsibilities in church sponsored schools and institutions and appoint a minister in every Presbytery to serve in a pastoral capacity in schools and institutions.
4. Consider paying the three top employees of the church sponsored hospitals through the hospital's Boards. Also allow overseas volunteers or missionary staff to work in hospitals for not less than two years in order eliminate the problems created by shorter terms of service.
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Kriel, Elli. "Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25343.
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Set in a small minority community in South Africa, the Orthodox Jewish com-munity in Johannesburg, this study explores why a person would actively and volun-tarily seek minority status by converting into an ethnic-religious minority group. Taking a social constructionist approach to understanding religious conversion, it is argued that religious conversion to Orthodox Judaism is also a social process of becoming ethnically "Jewish". In this study, two types of converts are considered, namely con-verts who come to Judaism through marriage and converts for religious purposes. Through in-depth-interviews with rabbis and converts, experiences of social inclusion and exclusion, and the meaning of conversions is understood. This study finds that regardless of the path to conversion, belonging and identity are key reasons for con-version, and that it is an ethnic process that serves group and individual needs recip-rocally. At an individual level, becoming Jewish through conversion helps avoid social exclusion and achieves other social inclusions by acquiring membership in new com-munities and by forming new social identities. At a group level, the research shows that religious conversion is part of the group's broader concern for maintaining ethnic boundaries and is therefore an element of the politics of belonging. The research shows how conversion to a minority ethnic group in a plural environment becomes a social means to protect ethnic identity and avoid assimilation. By understanding con-version as the politics of belonging, the research explores the subjective experiences of citizenship at a group and individual level.
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Kwon, Hyo-Sang. "Shifting ideas about ancestors in the construction of identities : an intercultural theological evaluation of Korean witnesses in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19538.
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Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Interculturation theology as a way of communication in religious cultural arenas is the most
recent and remarkable methodology that can be used to open space for mutual witness and
dialogue with regard to ideas about and the praxes of ancestral rituals between South Korean
and South African Christians. The purpose of this research is to overcome some dichotomised
problems that are inherent in exclusive, inclusive, and religious pluralistic approaches in
dialogue with other religious cultures. In this regard, we examined some problems of the
colonial way of mission and the functional translation of the exclusivistic approach and noted
that the inclusive approach also has its weakness, in that it weakens the historicity of the subject.
We attempted to show that theocentric and religious pluralistic approaches do not solve the
problem of mutual identity simply by searching for commonalities between religious traditions.
Our rationale is that although these approaches have their weak points, we should not overlook
their benefits. Therefore, in appraising these approaches, attention is drawn to how these
benefits may be used to complement one another. Consequently, we proposed a meaningcentred
and praxis-centred communication methodology using a holistic approach.
To appropriate a meaning-centred and praxis-centred methodology of communication, we
began by adopting the theological principle of perichoresis, which is the inner relationship
among the Persons of the Divine Trinity. Perichoresis is the foundation of missio Dei, which is
God’s initiative love to the world in praxis. Through incarnational self-giving, missio Dei is
revealed in the world. Secondly, we re-interpreted perichoresis as an intercultural term and
ideology, based on its components, mutual indwelling, mutual space, and mutual identity. The
intercultural meaning of mutual indwelling is continual mutual penetrating, while cultural
meaning of mutual space is interpreted as the others, that is, from the viewpoint of emptying
themselves in mutual communication instead of that of dominion and replacement. Further, we
re-interpreted mutual identity through the ‘praxis of with’. Based on this cultural reinterpretation
of perichoresis, we established a praxis-centred and meaning-centred model of
interculturation theology.
More importantly, the perichoretic model of interculturation enabled us to construct a
theological and cultural identity of Christianity in encountering with others, which is the ‘praxis
of with’. In particular, the study attempted to apply intercultural communication method to the encounter between Xhosa churches and Korean missionaries in Khayelitsha in terms of ancestor
related matters. Through this intercultural and comparative evaluation of shifting identities, we
suggested how Korean missionary and Xhosa churches could mutually construct theological
cultural identities.
For this purpose, we first carried out a literature study of Korean and South African indigenous
theologies concerning ancestor worship.1 Subsequently, we conducted an empirical survey in
Khayelitsha to determine the missiological views of Korean missionaries in the light of their
traditional religious background and Korean theologians’ indigenised interpretations of
ancestral matters. We also considered the theological positions of some Western missionaries in
Khayelitsha on the same issue. Finally, we investigated the identities of Xhosa churches in
Khayelitsha on literature and empirical levels and how intercultural theology can be
reconstructed to evaluate the missiological identities of Korean missionaries and Xhosa
churches in terms of ancestor worship.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Interkulturasie teologie as 'n kommunikasiewyse in godsdienstige kultuurgebiede is die mees
onlangse en merkwaardigste metodologie wat aangewend kan word om ruimte te skep vir
wedersydse getuienis en dialoog rakende idees aangaande en die praktyke voorouerlike rituele
onder Suid-Koreaanse en Suid-Afrikaanse Christene. Die doel van hierdie navorsing is om
sekere gedigotomiseerde probleme te oorkom wat inherent is in eksklusiewe, inklusiewe en
religieus pluralistiese benaderings wat in dialoog is met ander religieuse kulture. In hierdie
verband het ons ondersoek ingestel na sekere probleme van die koloniale wyse van sendingwerk
en die funksionele oorskakeling van die eksklusivistiese benadering en gemerk dat die
inklusiewe benadering ook sy swakheid het deurdat dit die historisiteit van die onderwerp
verswak. Ons het gepoog om aan te dui dat teosentriese en religieus pluralistiese benaderings
nie die probleem van onderlinge identiteit oplos nie deur eenvoudig te soek na
gemeenskaplikhede tussen religieuse tradisies. Ons rasionaal is dat alhoewel hierdie
benaderings hul swakpunte het, behoort ons nie verby hul voordele te kyk nie. By die inskatting
van hierdie benaderings word die aandag dus gevestig op hoe hierdie voordele gebruik kan word
om die ander aan te vul. Gevolglik het ons 'n betekenisgesentreerde en praktykgerigte
kommunikasiemetodologie voorgestel wat 'n holistiese benadering aanwend.
Om 'n betekenisgesentreerde en praktykgerigte kommunikasiemetodogie aan te wend, het ons
begin deur die teologiese beginsel van perichoresis te aanvaar, wat die innerlike verhouding
tussen die lede van die heilige drie eenheid is. Perichoresis is die fondament van missio Dei,
wat die inisiatief verteenwoordig wat God se liefde vir die wêreld in die praktyk is. By wyse van
inkarnasionele gee-van-die-self, word missio Dei aan die wêreld openbaar. Tweedens het ons
perichoresis herinterpreteer as 'n interkulturele term en ideologie wat op sy samestellende
elemente gebaseer is, naamlik 'n gemeenskaplike woning, gemeenskaplike ruimte en
gemeenskaplike identiteit. Die interkulturele betekenis van 'n gemeenskaplike woning is
voortdurende gemeenskaplike deurdringing, terwyl die kulturele betekenis van gemeenskaplike
ruimte geïnterpreteer word as die andere, met ander woorde vanuit die oogpunt van die lediging
van hulself in gemeenskaplike kommunikasie, eerder as oorheersing en verplasing. Ons het
verder gemeenskaplike identiteit herinterpreteer by wyse van die 'praktyk waarmee'. Gebaseer
op hierdie kulturele herinterpretasie van perichoresis, het ons 'n praktykgerigte en
betekenisgesentreerde model van interkulturele teologie daargestel. Belangriker nog het die perichoretiese model van interkulturasie ons in staat gestel om 'n
teologiese en kulturele identiteit van die Christendom op te stel temidde van 'n ontmoeting met
andere, wat die 'praktyk waarmee' verteenwoordig. In die besonder het die studie gepoog om die
interkulturele kommunikasiemetode toe te pas op die ontmoeting tussen Xhosa-kerke en
Koreaanse sendelinge in Khayelitsha in terme van voorouerverwante sake. Deur hierdie
interkuturele en vergelykende evaluering van verskuiwende identiteite, het ons voorgestel hoe
Koreaanse sendelinge en Xhosa-kerke wedersyds teologiese kulturele identiteite kan daarstel.
Vir hierdie doel het ons aanvanklik 'n literatuurstudie onderneem van Koreaanse en Suid-
Afrikaanse inheemse teologieë aangaande die aanbidding van voorouers. Daarna het ons 'n
empiriese opname in Khayelitsha onderneem om die missiologiese sienings van Koreaanse
sendelinge vas te stel in die lig van hul tradisionele godsdienstige agtergrond en die Koreaanse
teoloë se verinheemste interpretasie van voorouerlike sake. Ons het ook aandag geskenk aan die
teologiese posisies van sommige Westerse sendelinge in Khayelitsha oor dieselfde
aangeleentheid. Laastens het ons die identiteite nagevors van die Xhosa-kerke in Khayelitsha
op literêre en empiriese vlakke en hoe interkulturele teologie gerekonstrueer kan word om die
missiologiese identiteite van Koreaanse sendelinge en Xhosa-kerke te evalueer ingevolge die
aanbidding van voorouers.
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Gana, Thandeka Christine. "The influence of peer, community and religion on adolescent substance use in the Cape Metropolitan area." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of peer, community and religious influences on alcohol and tobacco use among high school adolescents from three different dominant groups of South Africa i.e. African, coloured and white adolescents. The investigations were based on two perceived major factors such as their familiy structure and their family's socio-economic status, which may either increase or decrease the likelihood of adolescent substance use.
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Abrahams, Andre John. "Political and religious identities : an exploration of changing identities amongst religious leaders in the Northern areas of Port Elizabeth." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020087.
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The political transition from the oppressive apartheid system to post-apartheid South Africa has brought considerable change to the political climate. As a result of this transition, political and religious identities were also affected. This study explores the changing identities amongst religious leaders particularly in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth. The research has also explored how the advent of democracy has affected the political perspectives of these religious leaders who were ministering during apartheid. A qualitative research approach was used to frame the study, which employed an exploratory research design so as to understand the current political identities of these religious leaders. The sample of the study was purposively selected using the snowball sampling technique. As a means of collecting data in-depth interviews were conducted. The themes emanating from the study were recognised as being: - Church leaders reflecting on the political climate apparent in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth - Church leaders reflect reasons for limited political action from certain segments of the community sighting fear and poverty as central tenets. - Church leaders reveal close link between the church and politics during the apartheid period - The activities of the church in opposing the apartheid structure - Participants reflect on the role of Church leaders specifically during this period. - Church leaders articulate their disappointment in the political environment since 1994. - Church leaders reflect how race has affected the political climate since 1994 - The changing role of the church since 1994 - The growing silence on current political issues since 1994 Based on the identified themes conclusions could be drawn on the current political and religious identities of religious leaders compared to those adopted during the apartheid period. The outcome showed that religious leaders within the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth are disappointed in the current political government but despite this have remained silent on political issues unlike the visible activism and vocal upheaval waged against the apartheid system.
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Libhaber, Ariel. "Does religion matter?: white women's perception of religious influence on childrearing." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5958.
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This study explores perceptions of religion and attitudes towards childrearing of white women. The focus on whites is motivated by the misconception that they comprise a homogeneous population group in South Africa.
These perceptions of religion are measured through a focus on religiosity, in other words, religious commitment. Different levels of religiosity are then identified, through a number of indicators, including women’s own views on what religion means to them. A scale of three levels of religiosity is consequently used to observe to what extent religion influences childrearing attitudes.
In terms of childrearing, the analysis identifies four major components in which religion informs, in different ways, childrearing attitudes: attitudes towards children’s education, attitudes towards the family, attitudes towards the children’s future, and the role of the partner in childrearing.
This analysis is located as well within the context of the ‘secularisation debate’, where we try to find out to what extent the identified religiosity corresponds to trends in regards to secularisation.