This article tells the story of Musa Dube’s interpretation of the Bible. It is not a biography of Dube’s personal life but rather a story of how she has contributed to the direction of African biblical scholarship; it ...

The first complete Bible translation in Afrikaans was published in 1933. This article focuses on describing and analysing this translation. Given new developments in translation studies, one should not evaluate a translation ...

The legacy of socio-economic injustice which was inherited from the Natives Land Act of 1913 continues to haunt the majority of black South Africans. The land dispossession of the indigenous people of South Africa under ...

Being the church in Africa requires a continuous self-assessment by Christian denominations, asking whether it is sufficiently contextualised both in its doctrines and practices. This selfcritique is essential so as to ...

This paper discusses the representation of blacks by the Norwegian missionary Olav Guttorm Myklebust, who worked in South Africa from 1931 to 1939. Although his intention seemed to be to give a friendly and balanced ...

A church revival which happened in 1906 in Los Angeles sparked a massive global church movement which came to be known as the Pentecostal-charismatic movement. It started with a single woman about a hundred years ago, ...

Discussions on the relationship between empires and biblical texts can benefit greatly from the theorisation of empire. It entails perceiving empire as a constantly constructed entity, by both the powerful and the ...

In both popular and academic writing recently on Christianity and the historical and contemporary phenomenon of imperialism, a strong current of negative sentiment is to be found on the latter. Such sentiments are both ...

Active in rural Natal and the Kingdom of Zululand since the middle of the nineteenth century, the Norwegian Missionary Society (NMS) undertook evangelisation and other forms of ministry to urbanised Zulus in and around ...