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Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Volume 38 Supplement, August 2012

Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Volume 38 Supplement, August 2012

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In the midst of purple song and dance: coming to terms with hegemonic systems of "patriarchy" and "kyriarchy" within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Southern Africa (ELCSA)

Phaliso, Mashudu Angelinah (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

The question on gender inequalities sounds strange in the circles of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Southern Africa. Currently, issues of hegemonic systems of patriarchy and kyriarchy are not openly discussed given ...
Interlocution and Black Theology of liberation in the 21st century: a reflection

Vellem, Vuyani (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

Before the dawn of democracy in South Africa, in the methodological debates that were associated with who the interlocutor of Black Theology of liberation was, there was a tacit understanding that not everyone who is ...
A critical dialogue with Gabrierl Molehe Setiloane: the unfinished business on the African divinity question

Masoga, Mogomme Alpheus (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

Gabriel Molehe Setiloane engaged and challenged the Western theological discourse on the structure and function of divinity. Most of his published dialogues pushed for the importance of an African theological discourse. ...
"Rethinking African theology: exploring the God who liberates" by Jean-Marc Ela

Beghela, Philemon (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

Jean-Marc Ela of the Republic of Cameroon has marked the contemporary world by his writings whose echo went beyond its domestic readership. Ela, who popularly became known as the “spokesperson of Africa’s diminishing ...
Religious voicelessness: a challenge to the Catholic Church

Prior, Laurence P (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

According to Professor Hans Küng, there will be no peace among nations until there is peace among the religions. People of religious belief constitute the majority of humankind who share the same basic values, such as ...
Public theology as a tool of economic empowerment for the voiceless Basarwa in post-independent Botswana

Ruele, Moji (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

This article attempts to show through correlative methods that public theology has brought in a new awareness of the relevance of theology in post-colonial Botswana and indeed in Africa as a whole. Correlative methods ...
From prophetic voices to lack of voice: Christian Churches in Kenya and the dynamics of voice and voicelessness in a multi-religious space

Parsitau, Damaris Seleina (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

Based on recent ethnographic research carried out in the last five years, this article offers an examination of the changing roles of mainline churches in public life by exploring the perceived loss of prophetic voice ...
Religious conflict in Nigeria: towards a re-awakening of the prophetic voice

Igboin, Benson O (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

Much work has been carried out in respect of religious conflict in Nigeria. Most of it focuses on perpetrators of collective violence, and the consequences on the victims, who are generally caught in the web of the pact ...
A decade of the same-sex debate in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (2001-2011)

Bentley, Wessel (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

The conversation on same-sex relationships in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) has been a long and emotional one. For ten years, this denomination, amongst others, has struggled to define its own position ...
HIV and AIDS: an epidemic of "pandemonium" amid denial and stigma by the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Methodist Churches in Manicaland, Zimbabwe (1985-2002)

Mbona, Michael (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

The arrival of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s caused pandemonium in a young nation that was still basking in the glory of attaining political independence. With more than 75% of the population ...
Logos, deconstruction-writing, ideology and the false social construction of meaning and representation of the "other" from the perspective of John 1:1

Hendricks, Gavin P (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

This article focuses primarily on meaning and representation of the “other”. The collective memory of primarily oral cultures about the ways in which knowledge about them was collected, classified and then represented ...
Skinny but imperishable truth: African religious heritage and the regeneration of Africa

Opoku, Kofi Asare (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

The increasing popularity of the guest religions of Christianity and Islam on the continent of Africa seems to have created the erroneous but widespread impression that the religious insights, values and institutions of ...
Interreligious voicelessness: As our ancestors said: "begged water does not quench thirst"

Shaw-Taylor, Eva (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

The advent of Christianity in Africa changed a lot of beliefs and practices; it is possible that the spirituality of the African Traditional Religion (ATR) made Christianity acceptable to the masses in Africa. Westernization ...
Gendered suffering and the complexities of keeping silent

Segalo, Puleng (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

Reliving the past in everyday life may function as a constant reminder of an individual’s past traumatic experiences, and if the person is not offered space in which to deal with these memories, silencing persists. Many ...
Die herdenking van die Gelofte van 16 Desember 1838 op Versoeningsdag: 'n nuwe uitdaging aan die kerk

Van der Merwe, Johan (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

With the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa in 1994, the newly elected government of South Africa changed the name of the public holiday on 16 December from “the Day of the Vow” to “the Day of ...
The Jurist-Biblical perspective of Jesus' and Saro-Wiwa's trials: the challenges of human rights violations in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

Olabode, Ekundayo Lawrence (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

In order to explain the challenges of human rights violations in Niger Delta, Nigeria clearly, human rights violations were traced from the biblical era to contemporary society using the excruciating trials of Jesus ...
"Untidy tools of colonialism". Education, Christianity and social control in Southern Rhodesia: the case of "night dances"

Mhike, Ivo (Church History of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

This article investigates the phenomenon of “night dances” as an expression of fluid cultural identities and a medium for contesting power by the youth within the context of the ‘civilising’ influences of education and ...
The silent echoing voice: aspects of Zimbabwean Pentecostalism and the quest for power, healing and miracles

Biri, Kudzai (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

Many Pentecostal or “born again” church services are characterised by the theology of “deliverance from powers of darkness” that ruin the life of a Christian. Located within the rubric of “powers of darkness” are African ...
The struggle within the struggle: an examination of the political power wrangle between the African National Council and other nationalist parties, especially ZANU and ZAPU, in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle (c. 1971-1980)

Moyo, Fabulous (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

The article examines the logic behind the establishment of the African National Council (ANC) under the leadership of Bishop Abel Muzorewa and it further explores how the movement got entangled in power politics of ...
Drums and voices from the grassroots: local women and the Hallelujah Chorus among Anglican churches in Ukwuaniland, Delta State, Nigeria, 1841-1941

Odili, Jones Ugochukwu (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)

From the mid-19th century a certain consistent and encrusted paradigm in African Christian historiography emerged, lamenting the voicelessness of the roles local people played in the evangelisation of their kith and kin ...

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