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The Prevalence of Women Sexual locking in a Gender Violence Context – A Pastoral perspective

Baloyi, Elijah (UV/UFS, 2016)

Marriage is highly regarded in Africa. Many taboos and rituals were put in place to ensure that marriage endures for as long as the couple lives. Any attack on marriage was rendered as a great enemy that deserved to be ...
Tribalism: Thorny issue towards reconciliation in South Africa – A practical theological appraisal

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS, 2017)

The apartheid regime used various strategies to ensure that South Africans formed a divided nation. It was through the differences between ethnic groups and tribes, among other things, that the government of the time managed ...
A pastoral evaluation of menopause in the African context

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)

Menopause, with its physical and emotional changes, appears to be an inevitable road for women to travel. The moment of choice for women at menopause involves not only whether they will embrace the new self or try to cling ...
Gendered character of barrenness in an African context: An African pastoral study

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016)

The importance of children for African people has been prioritised above many other reasons for marriage. Besides the fact that every childless marriage has only a slim chance of survival, women are the main objects of ...
THE SUSTENTASIE1 PROBLEM IN THE REFORMED CHURCHES OF SOUTH AFRICA: UNMASKING THE DILEMMA FACING BLACK THEOLOGIANS

Baloyi, E (2010)

Is the financial dependence of poorer black churches in South Africa compromising their theological message? Are black ministers diluting their sometimes critical views of socalled ‘white mother or sister churches’ because ...
Theological Reflections on Sex as a Cleansing Ritual for African Widows

Baloyi, Elijah (ojstest.ukzn.ac.za, 2016)

The HIV and AIDS epidemic is nearly 40 years old since the HIV was first discovered in the United States. At the moment the epicentre of HIV new infections; challenges related to the availability, accessibility and adherence ...
A continued racial character of some of the Gereformeerde Kerke in South Africa: Strategic moves evading reconciliation and unity of churches in post-apartheid South Africa

Baloyi, Elijah (2017)

The quest for liberation of all South Africans from past racial divides since the inception of democratic government has been prioritised for more than 24 years now. Although this is an ongoing process and some achievements ...
A pastoral examination of the Christian Church’s response to fears of and reactions to witchcraft amongst African people in the Limpopo province of South Africa

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012)

Amongst other things, African culture (societies) has been characterised by its perception and fear of witchcraft. Even though the belief in witchcraft is an old phenomenon, its growth is revealed and to some extent mitigated ...
A re-reading of John 8:1–11 from a pastoral liberative perspective on South African women

Baloyi, Elijah (2010)

The inception of democracy in South Africa faced the oppression of women as one of the challenges. The duty to improve women’s position in society is not the responsibility of a few people alone, but of everyone. According ...
The Christian church’s role in the escalating mob justice system in our black townships – An African pastoral view

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)

Among the crimes in the South African black townships, mob justice has become a growing concern. Some questions that need to be asked are: Is our police force doing enough to protect the ordinary citizens of this country? ...
The paradox of the reopening of schools under the lockdown – An exposure of the continued inequalities within the South African educational sector: A theological decolonial view

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020)

The arrival of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in South Africa was responded to by a lockdown, which barred people from moving out of their homes unless for serious and stipulated reasons by government. Amongst other ...
The use of narrative hermeneutical approach in the counselling of abortion patients within an African context

Baloyi, Elijah (2011)

Our country has celebrated democracy for more than a decade now, the democracy in which everyone enjoys all the basic human rights, including the right to an abortion. Public and private hospitals and some traditional ...
Unpacking the downside of sustentasie on African theology and theologians: a need for contextual black theology as a liberative ingredient for the black Reformed churches

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015)

The practice of the black church being a follower of the leading white church is a continuous process in the Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid Afrika (or Reformed Churches in South Africa in English). This makes it difficult to ...
Pastoral care to or with sex-starved pregnant women in an African context

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS, 2011)

The aim of this article is to highlight some African women’s problematic sex life, even in their married lives, as a result of prescribed and lengthy periods of abstinence from sex – especially during pregnancy. Literature ...
The church’s pastoral role concerning challenges faced by teachers in South-African public schools: Some practical theological perspectives

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS, 2016)

Teaching used to be a well-respected profession, which many people used to love in the past. Many children, when asked what they wanted to be when growing up, indicated that they wanted to be teachers. This is why – even ...
Wife beating amongst Africans as a challenge to pastoral care

Baloyi, Elijah (AOSIS, 2013)

Traditional African people are known for respecting their marriage. Even though marriage is so highly regarded, it is astonishing to realise that wife beating has become an extremely common practice amongst them. It ...
CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON INFERTILITY IN BLACK AFRICAN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES

Baloyi, Elijah (2009)

A childless marriage in an African context has traditionally had little chance of survival. Marriage and procreation are seen as a unity, and infertility has always been regarded as an affliction or disgrace among Africans. ...
Biblical Moral Inquest into Tradition of Suspicion of Treachery on African Women upon Husband’s Death

Baloyi, Elijah (Bridgewater, 2018)

The 16 days which South Africa dedicates to the fight against the abuse of women and children every December is a reminder of the effects of gender inequalities in this country. Even though this suspicion is inferred to ...
The Escalation of Gender-based Violence during Lockdown as a Practical Theological Concern in the South African Context

Baloyi, Elijah (Bridgewater, 2021)

The year 2020 will be remembered as the year in which the coronavirus managed to disturb almost the entire planet from many of its activities. During the lockdown, which saw more than 195 countries in the world trying to ...
DIE LEITUNGSKULTUR IN RUSSLANDDEUTSCHEN BAPTOMENNONITISCHEN FREIKIRCHEN : EINE HISTORISCHE STUDIE DER KULTURPRAGUNG

Tissen, Jakob (2021-11)

Die Forschungsarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Leitungskultur in den baptomennonitischen Freikirchen in Deutschland und ist damit dem Bereich Kybernetik zuzuordnen, einer Unterdisziplin der Praktischen Theologie. Für die ...

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