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Now on the verge of retirement, Prof Michel Clasquin-Johnson shares some of his experiences from the day he registered as a raw first-year student. However, this is not intended to be an exercise in nostalgia. This will ...
Pentecostalism continues to spread in Africa like a veld fire. This paper will pay attention to the phenomenon’s pervasive presence in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The new forms of pentecostalisation, characterised by ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Mary G; Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(African Journal of Disability, 2018-03-27)
Background: In this article, we reflected on our experience of the cost of parenting a child with autism, including our ongoing search for educational and therapeutic intervention.
Objectives: We aimed to give an academic ...
The doctrine of salvation is an important theme present in most religions. This theme guides many people in their daily actions, value systems and existential worldview. This mini-thesis is soteriological and sets about ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Journal for the Study of Religion, 2015)
It is a venerable academic tradition that Mahāvīra, the founder of Jainism known in the Pāli literature as Nigantha Nātaputta , was a somewhat older contemporary of the Buddha. This article describes the role of Nigantha ...
Inaugural lecture of Professor Michel Clasquin-Johnson, 15 October 2014.
As academics, we are all heirs to the great Socrates' assertion that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what of the professor? There ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2013-03)
Routinization is a term invented by Max Weber to describe events after the death of a charismatic religious leader. It has become widely used in the humanities in a variety of contexts. The death of the historical Buddha ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2016)
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have seen the rise of a new phenomenon - online ordination. It can be accepted that much of this burgeoning industry is a financial scam, but is that the whole story? The ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Journal for the Study of Religion, 2004)
The Buddhist Retreat Centre (BRC), about 12 kilometers from the town of Ixopo in Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa, opened its doors for business in 1980. For twenty-five years it has been at the centre of the small but ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Clasquin-Johnson on Smashwords, 2011-03-17)
Volume I in this series ended up more unified than I had planned. There are a few shorter pieces in it that are apropos of nothing at all, but for most of it, now that I read it again, I see how it reflects my own astonishment ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Michel Clasguin-Johnson on Smashwords, 2011-01-13)
The emergence of e-books has created new opportunities for academic authors. Like many academics, there are a number of shorter works that I have published over the years for which I never signed away the electronic ...
In late 1992, the Department of Religious Studies and the Institute for Theological Research at the University of South Africa embarked on a joint research project that would last for three years. The purpose of the project ...
Considering the immense power of religion for either good or evil, it is imperative that the followers of different religions should discuss their differences and negotiate a shared future, especially in a religiously ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Journal for the Study of Religion, 1993-09)
This article follows on certain thoughts about the compatibility of human rights theory and traditional theistic religion by Martin Prozesky. The problem of reconciling human rights theory with the Buddhist doctrine of ...
In this essay, the value and relevance of the study of Buddhism generally and at the University of South Africa in particular are described. Despite the small number of Buddhists in South Africa, Buddhology can benefit us ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Journal for the Study of Religion, 1992-03)
In this article, three aspects of classical Gnosticism are examined in order to establish how the term could be usefully applied to modern phenomena. Three religious and one cultural phenomena are examined in the light of ...
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel(Journal for the Study of Religion, 1989-09)
This article argues that “paradoxical intention”, a therapeutic technique used in the logotherapy of Victor Frankl, can be used as a valuable conceptual model in the further understanding of paradoxical teachings and ...