Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Volume 32 Number 1, May 2006
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2024-03-28T16:07:26ZThe origins of the Swedish Lutheran Ministry in the South African Republic
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/4413
The origins of the Swedish Lutheran Ministry in the South African Republic
Hale, Frederick
The Church of Sweden Mission established a significant
presence on the Witwatersrand early in the twentieth
century, but this was preceded by abortive Swedish
Lutheran missionary endeavours there during the 1890s.
Paul Nilsson Gullander, an erstwhile Swedish immigrant in
the USA, undertook a semi-private initiative in 1898. He
conducted a dual ministry to both Scandinavian
immigrants and African mineworkers until forced by illness
and the Second Anglo-Boer War to leave the South
African Republic.
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2006-01-01T00:00:00ZIn defence of children against family and community violence with a particular reference to informal settlements
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In defence of children against family and community violence with a particular reference to informal settlements
Molobi, Victor
South Africa has a history of healthy child rearing based
on African traditional values, before the coming of squatter
camps. The aim of this article is to identify some historical
values and incorporate them in future for child rearing in
informal settlement. The article will also discuss the way
informal settlement children are exposed to violence to
which they are most defenseless. Violence refers not only
to physical bodily harm, but also to its psychological and
spiritual effects on children. It hampers the normal
development of children to maturity. We argue that
violence cannot be a foundation for children to cope into
adulthood. It is a gruesome experience fuelled by lack of
social and moral constraints resulting from factors such as
poverty and lack of parental care. Areas like informal
settlements where violence is rife deprive children of
normal social, mental, physical and spiritual development.
By way of discussion, intensifying campaigns against
abuse will be described with a view to encouraging adults
to be responsible and to take clear stand against child
abuse.
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2006-01-01T00:00:00ZInfantilisation of the missionised
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Infantilisation of the missionised
Mogashoa, Humphrey
The hegemony of European ideology and worldview epitomised in
this case by the infantilisation of the missionised permeated both
the secular and religious sphere. Infantilisation, as both a system
and existence underlined the European Baptists’ attitude to mission
among the natives. As a system, the Europeans’ attitude to the
natives was to think and treat natives as infants perpetually in need
of European guidance. Infantilisation as existence meant that the
native and his or her environment were childish (backward and
undeveloped). Europeans’ zeal for mission coupled with such
perception of the native strengthened the belief that the infant state
of the native was by divine providence as it is the same providence
that affirmed the role of the European in his or her encounter with
the native.
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2006-01-01T00:00:00ZEducating the body of the female child : feminisms in dialogue with Jerome(d 420)
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Educating the body of the female child : feminisms in dialogue with Jerome(d 420)
Landman, Christina
At the beginning of the 5th century, Jerome sent a letter to
Laeta, the daughter of his co-ascetic Paula, on how to
raise a female child. Jerome, in short, views
disembodiment as redemption, and therefore also as the
final goal of education. In this article, different views on the
embodiment of the female child are placed in dialogue with
Jerome. These views are informed, mainly but not
exclusively, by feminist notions of the body as expressed
(1) in Body Theology, (2) in the International Resilience
Project, and (3) in work on the intersection between
feminisms and childhood education. Views on the
education of the female child as educating her towards the
embodiment of relationship, resilience and
interconnectedness are put forward to invite dialogue from
Jerome whose work was seminal in starting a tradition of
an ‘education of disembodiment’ in the Christian tradition.
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