The globalising effect of commercialisation and commodification in African theological education
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Authors
Naidoo, Marilyn
Issue Date
2017-09-07
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Article
Language
en
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The reality of globalisation is that it has knitted the world into a single time and place and has
introduced the dominant force of consumerism. In adopting this framework, it has frayed the
moral fabric of theological education and has short changed students who are configured as
consumers to please rather than characters to build. While the demographic centre of faith has
shifted southward, its ways of thinking and engaging culture have not yet caught up with that
shift. Global interconnectedness and the globalisation of knowledge together with
homogenisation forces have shaped African theological education to the extent that it has
absorbed the almost irreversible traits of the West. This paper highlights how transnational
cultural forms have profoundly impacted the production of theological education and will
attempt a response to the homogenising forces by the focus of African identity.
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Naidoo, M., 2017, ‘The globalising effect of commercialisation and commodification in African theological education’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 73(3), a4577.https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.4577
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AOSIS