Oral history has been used as a valuable tool for the recording of the neglected history of the ordinary people. Since the 1980’s, oral historians in South Africa have engaged recording the histories of the black people, ...

The role of Mission Councils in the growth and development of the Scottish Mission in South Africa is a confusing and vexing one. Whereas they were conceived and established as a means of facilitating mission, they often ...

The article proposes that one needs to understand the “action space” of an activist clergyperson in the constraints of his/her church’s structures which often form a kind of “Ideological State Apparatus” that limits ...

March 18th, 2012 marks 800 years since the founding of the Poor Clares, commemorating the day that Chiara Offreducio, now known as Clare of Assisi, rejected her affluent way of life and followed Francis in a life of ...

While the Bible was produced in part in Mediterranean North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has had a very different engagement with the Bible. This article analyses the reception of the Bible in Sub-Saharan Africa, recognising ...

A survey in 1957 initiated by the Lutheran Missionary, Helge Fosseus, confirmed that Africans were highly critical of the missionaries, describing them as betrayers supporting the politics of the white oppressors. ...

This article examines the relationship between the Society of St John the Divine, an Anglican sisterhood which was founded in Pietermaritzburg in 1887, and the bishops of Natal, in the context of the work of the community ...

The article reflects on key issues relating to Denis’ work as a church historian at the interface of theology, ecclesiastical and social history, and theological formation. The importance of the development of an ...